Tag: Risk

  • 4 in 10 love Bosses

    Well, this is a mix of two stories – the first suggests that 40% of Americans (I would assume that number is about equal in most North Atlantic countries and higher on the Pacific Rim) play video games and the second is from Wired that talks about what makes a good boss and why they…

  • eLearn Booked

    Well it took most of the morning to do it, but I’ve got eLearn 2006 booked and hopefully everything goes well, the papers get(s) accepted and we are off to the races. They have extended the call for presentations to May 10th now (on the website, now emails) and the final call dates are up…

  • Game Studies Research Findings – GDC 2006

    I was looking at stuff from GDC 2006 and found some interesting resources – Research Findings, Avant Game and Avant Game Blog. Take a look at some the resources. Some of them are applicable to education and transferring game, mainly when you are adding a feature, be it to a game or a lesson, be…

  • Wednesday Morning – Storytelling

    I was in a number of sessions this morning, and a couple of them dealt with storytelling. The keynote of course (Digital Storytelling – Giving Purpose to Pixels – Joe Lambert) and Video Storytelling (Patricia Kougar-Melton). There is a is a really mass of people working with storytelling in some way, shape or form here.…

  • The rest of the day Tuesday

    The first session was Ranting and Raving to Applauding and Praising: Chronicles of a Technophobe (Rice, Johnson, Ezell, Johnson and Houston) that talked about transitioning from traditional instruction to online instruction. It was good to hear that many of the things that we are doing at the U of A when we are working with…