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  • MS + NYU = G4LI

    MS and NYU have teamed up to create the Games for Learning Institute. It looks like quite the collaboration to bring a scientific lens to the game learning debate. It will be lead by Ken Perlin and Jan Plass.

  • Colors determined by language

    Well add this to the raft of “things” that get filtered through language – color seems to have some connection to language processing. Just like the Inuit and their words for snow, we all seem to have bias for color. I remember hearing something similar to this a while ago in reference to people who…

  • NMC – New Horizon 2008

    You’ve gotta respect the people who walk the walk and talk the talk. One of these groups is the New Media Consortium (at least at first blush). They have taken their Horizon 2008 report and dumped it into Comment Press to make it a living and interactive document. They see collaboration technologies as one of…

  • Why not Vodcast

    Wes has a post today that talks about storytelling and dual coding, this got me thinking about a meeting yesterday that I was in where part of the discussion was about vodcasts and what use they may be. I suggested that a vodcast that had the instructor “dancing around the room” was likely of little…

  • More than meets the mind

    Going through a bunch of starred articles and found this quote from Virtual Learning Worlds: I’m not sure why educators have this preconception of a learning game being a perfect standalone learning experience. Instructors don’t solely rely on a lecture in a classroom, they often have electronic support like video, images, or slides, they have…