In response to a debate convened elsewhere about the nature of Second Life and the nature of games-based learning and the nature of role-play…. Interestingly, (to me) my PhD research project is entitled “Drama Teacher as Games Master: developing digital games-based process drama as performance” My goal is to take aspects of process drama, role-playing games and dramatic performance […]
I’m wondering how many other researchers have encountered Edward Tufte? This man is referred to as the “Da Vinci of Dataâ€.. his ideas on data representation are amazing. He offers this in relation to PowerPoint: In corporate and government bureaucracies, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points […]
  OK – finally have my little parcel of land upon which to develop the basics for part of the Interdisciplinary Practice unit I’m teaching at university this year and to accommodate some of my explorations for my research. You can find it over at Maceday 121,143, 152. It looks a bit like a […]
http://simteach.com/simteach12_06.pdf Jeremy Kemp at SimTeach has published an interesting overview “The Who, Where, When and How of Second Life as a Teaching Tool in 2006” Well worth tracking and perhaps a very useful starting point for anyone consodering venturing into Second Life.
Well, it seems I’ve attracted the attention of some folk in the USA who are also interested in online teaching/learning and, hurrah, drama! Tom, aka ArthurConan Doyle, has an entry over at the CATE Life blog. (http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/7321876) We’ve started talking about some possibilities of running a high school drama project on the Teen Grid at […]
One of the legends and founding reseachers in ICT in education, Seymour Papert, is in a coma after a traffic accident in Hanoi “Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor emeritus Seymour Papert, 78, was among more than 100 international experts from 30 countries who had gathered in Hanoi this week for conference on teaching mathematics with […]
Well it’s been a while since I found time to post something new. I’ve recently joined the Second Life Educational Community and found it incredibly absorbing. This community is incredibly vibrant, and like the rest of Second Life it is growing at a rapid rate. When I say growing I’m referring to the population – […]
Well, I’m back in Perth after delivering my keynote at the Drama Australia “Turning the Tides” conference. I was presenting on Monday morning and was first up – there were quite a few latecomers as the conference dinner was held on the Sunday evening. My topic was This drama is pwned: 1337 drama – a […]
Ian Bogost over at Water Cooler Games discusses the release of a game based on the Paris riots. He refers to an emerging genre, “documentary games†and leads us to discover a few we may not have encountered previously. I’ve been increasingly interested in so-called documentary games (or docu-games), such as JFK Reloaded and Escape […]
There is quite a flurry of discussion on US bloggging and eductaion sites about the passing of the DOPA – Deleting Online Predators Act. I suspect it is a case of well-intentioned ignoramuses making policy that throws the baby out with the bath water. We all know the benefits of engaging students through online interaction. […]