Here is a contest where you can put your design skills to use and win some nifty software: Caspian Learning today announced their plans to launch a Serious Games Challenge worth £3000 ($4, 514.79 USD) worth of software to the winner. The competition is free to enter and open to all aspiring instructional designers. Caspian […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Your competitors are leveraging the power of 3D learning environments to encourage collaboration, exploration and genuine competitive advantage. Are you? To avoid the perception that virtual immersive environments are a fad or inappropriate for corporate learning, make sure you design the virtual immersive experience around these eight principles: Instructionally Grounded. Ensure the learning intervention is […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Week Seven was not an official week in the blog book tour but we still had a good amount of buzz concerning the book. Here are some of the links to tour-related activities. Gordon Snyder who writes Gordon’s Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Blog posted a video from keynote event I did in January in […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Today at Noon Eastern Standard Time (EST), I will be chatting with Cammy Bean and Robert Squires about Instructional Design at EdTechTalk. EdTechTalk is a community of educators interested in discussing and learning about the uses of educational technology. The group webcasts several live shows each week. During shows, listeners can use any common media […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here is a press release about one big virtual world event where Tony and I will be speaking about Learning in 3D. GLOBAL CONFERENCE IN SECOND LIFE® TO SHOWCASE THE POWER OF VIRTUAL WORLDS TO TRANSFORM EDUCATION 2010 Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference (March 12-13): Featured Address by Mark Kingdon, CEO of Linden […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Abbott Bundy with his backpack and walking stick ready to embark on a story quest with his guides. Yesterday, I had the privilege of touring a fascinating project in the 3D virtual immersive environment of Second Life. It is called The Virtual Worlds Story Project with the tag line “Weaving the Narrative Threads of Our […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →There avatars wave good bye as the virtual world closes on March 9, 2010. Another consumer-based 3D virtual worlds is closing down in a few days. The well-known virtual world called There is closing on March 9, 2010. According to the press announcement on the closing of There: Unfortunately, this also meant that There.com’s customers […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Image of a skin-based interface from Huffington Post Article on the subject. Being someone who is interested in gadgets (see Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning) people are always asking me what is the next big thing. Well I can tell you that one of the next big things (5-10 year horizon) is body acoustics […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Unfortunately, Training Magazine is folding up shop on its web site, print magazine and conferences. You can read some posts about its closing: Training Magazine Closes and Now, it appears, So Do the Conferences It’s Happening in the Learning Industry: Training Magazine and Web Site Shutting Down RIP Training Magazine by Jane Bozarth Training Magazine, […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Sitting at my virtual desk gathering statistics. Here are some interesting Virtual World Statistics gathered from a number of different sources. In the fourth quarter of 2009, total registered accounts in the virtual worlds sector reached 803 million. This is a 19.7% (132m) quarter on quarter increase, from 671m registered accounts in the third quarter […]
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