Using games in education

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 […]

the body and the screen

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 […]

Kudos indeed

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!!

Community building

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 […]