So it is Saturday night, the kids are out of the house for a few hours at friends houses and my wife and I are sitting on the couch enjoying some peace and quite…she turns to me and says, “Let’s go downstairs and play…Guitar Hero.” In the past I could never get my wife to […]
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Leave a Comment (10) →I won’t be blogging on Friday due to spending quality time with my family and recovering from eating all that turkey. So just, remember to be thankful for all you have, I know I am. Enjoy the holiday. And if it isn’t a holiday you celebrate…take some time to just give thanks. __ Recommended Games […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Recently, I have been guest blogging in Phil Charron’s (of Learning Simulation) class “Theories of Electronic Communication” which he teaches in the Philadelphia area. Guest blogging has been a lot of fun as the students were assigned to read the first chapter of my book (available here) and then blog about their impressions of the […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Amazon.com has jumped into the hardware game…in a big way. Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon, aims to do for the book and publishing industry what Apple and Jobs have done for the music industry…make the digitalization of content cool. Here are some features from Amazon itself: Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Often, it is too expensive to build a game or simulation from scratch for use in the classroom. However, some very clever teachers are using commercially available games to achieve educational goals. Here are three examples.First example is Kurt Squire…read about what he has done in the article Let the Games Begin. Here is a […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Recently, in two different contexts, I’ve been asked about some methods for teaching when the audience is comprised of different generations who have different preferences for learning. Here are somethings you can do to work across the generations. Acknowledge to the class that their are multiple generations within the class and that each generation may […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here is a very funny video put together by a grad student of mine about the tv show The Office and Second Life…The Office is a really funny show and this clip is funny. Check it out. It is very “LOL” as the gamers would say. As you may or may not know…CNN now has […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →In an effort to eliminate the “digital divide” between wealthy and poor students, Maine public schools in 2002 and 2003 distributed 36,000 laptops to seventh- and eighth-graders across the state. Many critics wondered if this was just technology in search of a problem or if the kids would actually benefit from the use of technology. […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Second Life has come under a lot of attack recently because “it’s empty.” One especially hard hitting article How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life complained that “there’s the question of what people do when they get there. Once you put in several hours flailing around learning how to function in […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Great audience for the Keynote at the PA/DE/NJ Distance Learning Conference. We had over 100 attendees at the keynote. They were engaged and active. We had fun with the subject and they recognized many of the traits I discussed in both incoming employees to their organizations as well as their own kids. Here I am […]
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