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Our bi-annual Corporate Advisory Council has kicked off today. The first day is when companies present what they are doing and how they incorporating e-learning into their organizations. So we are blogcasting the event live as it happens so feel free to participate and join in the discussion. I did the first presentation on the […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →“In any given minute of the day, about 1.6 million people in the U.S. are using a video game console.” This according to research released by Nielsen Wireless and Interactive Services, a service of The Nielsen Company. The research goes on to say that 41.1% of all TV households own at least one game console […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →As a faculty member, father and human being, my heart goes out to all of students, faculty, staff and parents at Virginia Tech. Sometimes we live in such sad times.__
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Leave a Comment (1) →Yes, it is now official, you can order Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning: Tools and Techniques for Transferring Know-How from Boomers to Gamers. The book is available at Amazon and from the publisher at Wiley’s web site. Also, check out the web site for the book www.gadgetsgamesandgizmos.com. It has an interactive game/console timeline, wiki-based […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Rumor has it that Apple is in the process of creating Wi-Fi enabled iPods. (via Gizmodo via digitimes via AppleInsider. This coupled with Nike’s iPod enabled shoe, once again show how gadgets can be used to transfer knowledge from one place to another…wi-fi allows for easy transfer. So imagine your iPod sensor from running sending […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Our instructional technology department has purchased a private island called “MSIT Island.” I am using it for my class this semester and for one I will be teaching this summer. Currently two student teams are building educational environments on the island in accordance to an Request for Proposal created for my class. I just had […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →So for my 40th Birthday (yes, I look 20 in my profile photo…). My wife surprises our family with a cruise. So we all headed to the Caribbean. Therefore, posts on this blog have been delayed and I might still be a little intermittent in the near future, I haven’t been able to get the […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →This week over at TrainingDay, my post Today’s Toys, Tomorrow’s Tools is a little bit of a rant. But I think it is important to continually remind ourselves that the upcoming gamers are going to learn differently than us digital immigrants and we need to adapt as well as help them adapt…we can’t dictate terms […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →If you have some time on Friday, April 20, 2007…join me for an Adobe Luminary eSeminar Series: eLearning, Sales & Marketing from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM US/Pacific. My topic will be Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning: Transferring Knowledge to the Gamers Here is the description: Learn how the incoming, techno-savvy gamer generation will […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →One effective method of using 3D worlds like Second Life, Active Worlds, ProtoSphere and others for education is to build environments and 3D models for the students to learn about places they could not otherwise visit or inhabit. Build a dangerous or deadly environment and let them freely explore to learn in a realistic manner […]
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