Everyone had a great time last night, we went on a cruise and today we are going to have a keynote by WIRED editor Thomas Goetz. He spoke on the topic of “How to Get better at anything” He opened with a great story about Coach John Wooden. He said the coach was carefully studied […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →In the introduction to the event, they announced a number of cool innovations. This year they announced EduM Mobile Learning Envionment, with iPad enabled training and announced more about how they partnered with The Phoenix Group to create exciting portals feature rich, interactive web experiences. They also spoke more about explaining what they are doing […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The 3D learning software for creating 3D simulationsThinking Worlds 3.4 will be available tomorrow to download at the web site and includes an export to web via Java feature. There will be a MASSIVE promotion that will be valid until the end of May only. I’ll posting something tomorrow so you can download and check […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The military has always been a huge advocate of games for learning. They deal with life and death and are serious about training and have found that games make an impact on learners. So they use all kinds of game-based techniques for learning. If those techniques did not work, I can tell you, the military […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →E-learning courses seldom, if ever, have any surprises. The learner always knows where to click, what to do next and how many screens until the end. Nothing random occurs in an e-learning course, not on purpose anyway. But look at a distant cousin of e-learning and you’ll see randomness and surprises everywhere. Video games are […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →One of the great things about my travels is that I get to speak with all kinds of interesting folks who are thinking about learning is new and innovative ways. Here is a summary of a great conversation I had with Reuben Tozman who I met one night at a conference (actually, we weren’t at […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →I don’t work with the game Immune Attack but got this notice today that they are looking for teachers to help test it. If you know a teacher, pass this information along. Immune Attack is a 3rd person shooter inside a human body. Your ray gun can activate proteins and locate cytokines. But can you […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →So when a person starts playing video games, they tend to only focus on one genre like “First-Person Shooter” or action adventure games but as you are thinking about creating an educational game, consider the work of others who have tried to turn convention upside down. Here are a couple of examples. Kirby’s Epic Yarn […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →It might not seem like it but aesthetics–art, beauty and visual elements—are part of every game from the symmetry of the tic-tac-toe game space to the clever little Monopoly pieces and all the way to the cinematic detail of a video game like Red Dead Redemption with its panoramic views of the American Wild West. […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here is an interesting article about how to bring mobile phone development to the classroom. The video is sponsored by the ICT Center. The ICT Center is recognized nationally as a leader for its expertise in developing and distributing comprehensive ICT content supporting business and industry’s efforts to educate and train their ICT workforce. The […]
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