The folk over at The Games Institute and Muzzy Lane are offering a 4 week online course “Using Games in Education”… With Using Games in Education, you can bring the opportunities of digital games into your classroom. This ten unit course explores “why games”—the theories of educational gaming—and “how games”—the practical aspects of implementing educational […]
Over at Terra Nova they are talking about this insurance commercial (“The Lord of Mishap”) which was first aired on TV. Check it out and pop back when you’re finished.
Dr Dean Chan presented at the CREATEC seminar today about his work in Theorising Diasporic Asian Cultures. His discussion on Asian American Gamers was a taster of his ongoing research into this area. His introduction of the “Garden Grove” experience of a few years ago was especially interesting albeit very brief. PRIVACY, FREE SPEECH & […]
A new book, The Body and The Screen, from Michelle White looks at issues relating to online representations. Internet and computer users are often represented onscreen as active and empowered–as in AOL’s striding yellow figure and the interface hand that appears to manipulate software and hypertext links. In The Body and the Screen Michele White […]
Congress Looks To Halt MySpace In Schools, Libraries 05.12.2006 9:03 AM EDT New bill would ban anyone under 18 from accessing social networking sites. from MTV News The article discusses a new bill being tabled in the US that seeks to limit access to onlone social networks by minors. It certainly seems like a knee-jerk […]
Microsoft have recently released an add-in to their Office suite that allows for easy integration of Creative Commons licensing. This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using the popular applications: Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors […]
I’ve just been dabbling with an interesting little tool. Not entirely sure of the possibilities yet beyond the obvious social play. But it does look interesting and is incredibly easy to use. Not sure how it stacks up against podcasting – but give it time. A new step in the great ocean of Social Networking. […]
A great little resource comes from Google Video. A documentary history of video games from Atari to Nintendo… extrapolate from there…
A liitle personal gossip. Last year at a conference in Melbourne I met a professor from the Instructional Design section of a major US university. Yesterday I got an email asking if I’m interested in a temporary teaching position. No real news yet, but I was just so damn chuffed I had to share!!
At a CREATEC seminar yesterday Janette Hill from University of Georgia presented a short session about community building in online learning environments. Some important insights for my own investigations into shifting Process Drama into online contexts. Janette introduced Turkle’s suggestion of the self as “sum of distributed presences” and I found the notion very similar to Goffman’s […]