Tag: K-12
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Bioware going mobile
One of the great Edmonton companies, Bioware is going to get into the handheld market with Nintendo (Google News). What is the big deal in terms of those of us looking to integrate games into Education? Bioware made the Neverwinter Nights engine that can be modified using Scriptese – so they are certainly not strangers…
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SimSchool
I’m prepping a presentation on SimSchool that I’ll be giving tomorrow and as impressed as I was with it at SITE 2006, I’m more so now that I’m starting to work with it a little more, it is becoming even more impressive in what it can do to help get those sticky classroom situations under…
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Just a mash of stuff – Google and the Divide
I found a few interesting things this morning – the first an individual playing chicken with a train, the second, a report about the Digital Divide that still exists in the US between “races” (nee melatoninly differentiated populations maintained by social and economic inequity) and the last is that Writely is now accepting new registrations…
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Innovate Online – Accelerating Games
Jones and Kalinowski in their new article in Innovate Online suggest that as games today are having trouble penetrating the classroom because they can’t in many cases fit the explicit needs of the curriculum without modification or addition. To this end, they are proposing a community form to share learning objects that would help align…
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MS’s OLPC, iPod Bullies
I was going to say killer, but this is school stuff and that is not nice and because it’s the end of the day here it is in short form – MS is pressing FonePlus as the OLPC alternative. It makes sense considering the other post this morning about the strength of cell networks around…