This summer, one of my duties was serving as an external evaluator for a National Science Foundation grant (NSF) where the grant team of community college professors created a workshop to teach teachers how to create instructional games and then teamed the teachers with students from the community college to actually create the games, it […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Last week I had a chance to visit Lynda.com and work as an author creating a course for Lynda.com. It was a great adventure and I had a lot of fun. So here is the story of my five days at Lynda.com. Before the Trip The adventure started even before traveling to Carpinteria, CA for […]
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Leave a Comment (14) →Recently Elon Musk indicated that he thought Artificial Intelligence (AI) was “potentially more dangerous than nukes” and it’s easy to dismiss such statements as hyperbole or over generalization but…can we? Should we? Are we really aware of what we are doing? Elon Musk is no “conspiracy nut.” He is founder of such technology companies at […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The other day I had a conversation with David Kelly of the eLearning Guild about a game design workshop Sharon Boller of Bottom Line Performance and I are doing at the upcoming DevLearn Conference in Las Vegas. Here is a short video of our discussion And here is a link to our workshop called Play […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →One feature video games, board games and gamification have over traditional learning environments is the frequency and intensity of feedback. Feedback in games and in gamification is almost constant. In a video game the player has real-time feedback on progress toward goal, amount of life or energy left, location, time remaining, how much “stuff” they […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The other day I had a chance to talk with Mike Lozicki of MediaLab 3D Solutions and ask him a few questions. Mike is the President & CEO of MediaLab 3D Solutions. Little about Mike’s company before we get started. For nearly two decades, MediaLab 3D Solutions has been the leader in digital asset creation […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Many games involve creating, identifying or predicting a pattern. This is a common element in many basic and electronic games. It is also an important element for many professional and academic skills. Pattern recognition is the ability to recognize order in a chaos or to see relationships in disjointed information. Patterns can be found in […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The other day I had a chance to catch up with Duncan Lennox, the CEO and co-founder of a fascinating company called Qstream. Qstream is a mobile sales enablement and analytics company spun off from Harvard University to bring a unique and scientifically-proven knowledge retention and analytics methodology to a wider audience. Duncan is passionate […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Strategy games are a popular type of games that require players to outwit and outmaneuver fellow players through careful decision making, planning several moves ahead and attempting to predict outcomes and consequences of both their moves and their opponent’s moves. Perhaps one of the best known strategy games is Chess. Chess is a strategy game […]
Continue Reading →Here are two videos which are a lot of fun but should also make us pause and think. They are by Weird Al Yankovic who is a music parody-artist and satirist. If you don’t know him, here is his web site. The first video below is a collection of business buzz words done in a […]
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