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One of the problems with things that are well executived and flawlessly performed is that they tend to look too easy and, therefore, anyone thinks they can do it and, in reality, they can’t. Take for example, Shaun White’s performance on the second run at the X Games, he performed effortlessly and with tricks and […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Often I am asked for a list of interesting and educational locations within Second Life, the 3D virtual world software, here is a rather lengthy list of some of the more educational places within Second Life. Of especially keen interest is the Aids Quilt: The 3D AIDS Quilt, debut was in two virtual worlds and […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →One of the great things about being a faculty member is watching students who graduate go on and accomplish really awesome things (even more awesome than what the faculty member is doing…that’s a successful faculty member). One of the most creative people I know is Greg Walsh who was one of the first students I […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →I was reading through the May 2008 Harvard Business Review and came across a fascinating article called “The Science of Thinking Smarter”–a conversation with brain expert John J. Medina. Here are two questions and his responses that I thought were insightful especially when he talked about the convergence of memory and learning and the ability […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Here is a table with some tools for social learning, short description of the tool, the best use for social learning for the tool and some examples. Web 2.0 Tool Definition of the tool Best Use of Tool Examples Wiki A wiki is a self-organizing knowledge web site. A wiki is a discussion. Wiki software […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →The press reported that a recent study looking at sophomore college students indicated that 45% of those students (out of 2,300) showed no significant improvement in the key measures of critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing by the end of their sophomore years. On the surface that seems like a horrible result and for all […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The first step in the prototype development process is to brainstorm ideas with subject matter experts programming team members and instructional game designers. The brainstorming process should result in the integration of the right amount of content and process knowledge integrated into the game along with identification of the flow of the prototype, the “teachable” […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Home libraries are going the way of the dinosaur…so what is going to replace them? Home manufacturing rooms. In the future I think folks will have a room filled with printers that print plastic, glass, metals and when you want a product, you’ll go onto the web, check out the item in 3D or work […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →I am in San Fransisco at the annual ICT Center/MPICT Winter Conference The conference is focused on community college educators who are working to train a technical workforce in Information and Communication Technologies. It is a great group of people with wonderful ideas and a great dedication preparing students for careers. The conference was kicked […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →According to a recent study Measuring the Influence of Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy, there are three main measures of influence in Twitter. 1. Indegree influence, the number of followers of a user, directly indicates the size of the audience for that user. 2. Retweet influence, which we measure through the number of retweets containing […]
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