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You thought Avatar was big grossing $27 million dollars on its first day of release? You thought Toy Story 3 was big at $41 million on opening day? Sit back, Halo: Reach available only for the Xbox 360 made over $200 million on opening day. This makes it the biggest launch of an entrainment offering […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Here is a collection of several game design documents and information about game design documents. If you are considering creating a “Serious Game” or an instructional game, one of the first place to start is a great game design document. But how to write one? These samples will give you some ideas. Chris Taylor Game […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →What? You say, teachers have limited time? Yet, they still need to keep up with kids, administrative rules and technology? How can they do all that? Mark discusses a Office 2007 Screen One way is through a unique offering by the Training videoproduction company – The 8.45 Club. The company creates 15 minutes of education […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →A great deal seems to be happening in the e-learning space and I’ve been getting a number of press releases and information about product, events and other great happenings so I thought I’d share some of that information in this post. Serious Games Space Serious Games Design and Technology Company, Caspian Learning–the company behind Thinking […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →If you are doing a formative or summative evaluation of instruction or doing a needs assessment or a program evaluation, sooner or later you are going to need a Likert-type scale. You also may have a question about using odd or even numbers in the Likert-Type Scale, here is some insight on that. Here are […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →According to Fortune, Bill Gates (yes, that Bill Gates) his favorite teacher is named Sal Khan. Sal teaches at his own online university called khanacademy.org which is a vast digital trove of free mini-lectures all narrated by Khan. See the article Bill Gates’ favorite teacher The Khan Academy is the most popular educational site on […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →In many organizations, people need to receive training for unlikely but possible events (such as a blow out on an oil rig or the blow out of two engines on an airplane because of bird strikes.). These are critical incidents and 3D learning environments can help people prepare and train for these events. Training in […]
Continue Reading →If you are thinking of creating an educational game but don’t want to invest a lot of money, you can try out these free software programs (or free for 30 days in some cases), some are 2D and some are 3D. Also, if you are in a large organization and thinking of implementing a “serious […]
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Leave a Comment (6) →In Pennsylvania, the job situation is rather bleak. More than 591,000 Pennsylvanians are jobless and the jobless rate has risen from 9.2 in June to 9.3 in July (doesn’t seem like much unless you are one of the .1 who lost your job.) More Pennsylvanians are out of work than any other time in the […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Labor Day is here, traditionally, many people in the US consider it the last day of summer. And to celebrate they usually cook out on the grill and have a picnic. Well, the celebration doesn’t have to end even when the weather gets cold, there are plenty of fun and exciting cooking games that you […]
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