Tag: COTS

eLearn 2006 – Monday

Cool papers: A study on the collaborative learning cellular phones at the elementary schools (Tashiro) Miyagi University, Japan Digital Storytelling: Self-Efficacy and Digital Literacy (Li, Morehead) Oakland University Mobile Learning: A Review of Implementations (Barneveld, Shaw) Concordia University The Educational Implications of Synchronous and Asynchronous Peer- Tutoring in Video Games (Moshirnia) University of Kansas Quick…

October 17, 2006
eLearn 2006 – Saturday

Cool papers: Effective Use of Cellular Phones in a Large Class for Activating Students’ Participation (Wada, Nakanishi, Tatsuta) Dokkyo University, Japan HipBone Games in Higher Education: Supporting Critical and Creative Thinking (Bures) Bishop’s University, Canada Playing Games: Best Practices for Educational Games in E-Learning (Bakisian) University of San Francisco The theme of Saturday morning was…

October 14, 2006
More COTS research

This is stolen from Silversprite and the GU Gamesblog who dug up two interesting articles. The first is one that I found yesterday as well when I was chatting with my niece in England over MSN looking for any games that UNICEF might have available to help people understand it’s work (like Food Force). The…

October 4, 2006
More GTA:SA Fun

Well, it is getting even more weird for Rock Star and Take Two. The City of LA is going after them in court for illegally hiding porn. This certainly gives any attempts to help GBL out yet another monkey to bear on it’s back. People, it seems, think that when ED/IT people talk about game…

January 27, 2006
Safety nets

I had a one on one help session with one of the sessionals today and over the course of the discussion there were a few interesting points – one that she wants to be on a Mac, but thought they were too expensive until I told her about the mini, two that she can see…

December 8, 2005