- Alternatives to Second Life
Here is a list of alternatives to Second Life. Forterra Systems Inc. The company offers private, secure virtual worlds with tailored solutions based on industry and customer specific needs. The solutions are designed by Forterra to meet enterprise IT security and privacy needs. The flagship product … - Immerse Yourself in Another Language
Sneak preview of the Arabic Version of 3DLanguage an immersive learning environment. The folks who created 3D Language Spain which I have blogged about before in Learning Spanish in a Game have now created a couple more interesting and highly entertaining products (not to mention Educational.) The g… - Creating Learning Spaces in Second Life
This morning I received an email message from, Fiona, who provided me with a really interesting link to 50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life. Actually, it is really a listing of great SL resources and ideas broken down by different categories such as: Training Purposes–… - Tell Me a Story
Karl asks Stephen Denning about the power of storytelling. Last week I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the 5th Annual Kaplan-EduNeering Knowledge Summit (more about my speaking with Nadira Hira in another post.) I really enjoy these knowledge summits. I meet some wonderful speakers an… - Do we really need to design differently for the so called “Digital Natives”?
This month, I worked with Tony Karrer to help create the ASTD Big Question (which always seems to be multiple questions under one big theme.) The main question is Learning design differences for Digital Natives? Of course I have strong opinions on the topic due to the fact that I’ve written a… - Even Spies Play Video Games
One more high-stakes government agency has joined the growing ranks of organizations that are using video games to teach life and death concepts. In the Wired article U.S. Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think the author explains how the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has taken deliver… - Roll Up Your Sleeves and Get to Work
Whenever I tackle a new instructional design project one of the first things I do is look through my files for old instructional design projects. Where is that audience analysis checklist I developed? In what folder is that chart I use to explain concepts to new designers? Where is my template for c… - Yes, Ok, I Admit, I’ve Stayed at the Mayflower Hotel, but…
No, I am not “Client Number 10” from the infamous Eliot Spitzer scandal. My stay was perfectly above board. Last year I was a speaker at the Kaplan-EduNeering Knowledge Summit. I spoke on the topic of Games and the Gamer Generation to over 100 people and had a chance to do a book signin… - Visual Learning and Information Display: Professor’s Memory Lapse
Last night I was teaching away and I was talking about the visual display of information, I could clearly, “in my mind’s eye” see what I was talking about but I couldn’t remember the web site URL to which I was referring. I kept thinking that it would “come to me”… - Teens, Tweens and Social Networking
Chart shows percentage of teens and tweens and what social networking/Web 2.0 activities they do weekly online. You might have seen this, but in July 2007, the National Schools Board Association published a report stating: Online social networking is now so deeply embedded in the lifestyles of tween…
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