Interesting debate in the Supreme Court. There is a case going on now where the concept of free speech in the form of video games (violent ones in this case) is up against consumer protection and the desire to protect kids from immersive violence. Check out the article Court weighs state law banning ‘violent’ video […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →There are many ways to effectively present data and information. Commoncraft provides one interesting and clever way and, as a public service announcement, every year around Halloween, I like to post this informative video which could save your life…(if you were ever confronted with Zombies).
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Leave a Comment (1) →The other day someone emailed me with a question of how to get social media usage going in an organization. Here are a few suggestions, First, I often “seed” the use of a social networking tool with a basic question like “What do you think [this tool] can do for us?” or if the group […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The other day, I discovered an interesting article, Presence Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning in a 3D Virtual Immersive World, which describes an educational approach for conducting a learning event in a virtual immersive environment. As the abstract to the article indicates: Presence Pedagogy is a way of teaching and learning that is grounded in social […]
Continue Reading →Here is an interesting whitepaper called Moving Learning Games Forward: Obstacles, Opportunities and Openness written by Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, and Katie Salen with contributions by Jason Haas, Jennifer Groff and Dan Roy and right out of the Education Arcade. You really need to read the entire paper but here is one highlight which is […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →A few months ago, Tony O’Driscoll and I teamed up with Daniel Bliton and Charles Gluck for a discussion of some of the topics of Learning in 3D, here are the videos. And the second: If you liked the videos, check out the book:
Continue Reading →Recently, there has been a lot of calls for the death of PowerPoint especially from the US Army. From We’ve Met the Enemy and He is PowerPoint where the article discusses perhaps the worlds most challenging PowerPoint slide. The article states: Commanders say that the slides impart less information than a five-page paper can hold, […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →There are many creative ways to leverage virtual world platforms from conducting job interviews over a distance to conducting training on critical incidents to machinima to teaching new military recruits. And here is another useful application. Teaching people how to drive. If you are like me, you are amazed at how bad a driver everyone […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Yesterday, Philip Linden (AKA: Philip Rosedale ) stepped down as CEO of Linden Labs (yes again). He has done this before and then come back. He is staying on the board but not running day-to-day operations. Here is what he wrote on the Second Life blog. You can find the original here. After about four […]
Continue Reading →Question: What can we do with mobile learning and smartphones? Answer: One application is that smartphones enable the concept of a Virtual Mentor to be employed to assist in a variety of settings. A virtual mentor is a live person who provides assistance to one or more individuals who are “on the ground” at a […]
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