Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis came across the Serious Games list today and I thought it was worth sharing: Serious Game Classification : The online classification of Serious Games. This just came across the serious games list and may be of interest. This is … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are thousands (maybe even millions) of examples of the Decorative Media Principle out there in the Internets. The Decorative Media Principle involves creating a visually pleasing background and other decorations for a worksheet, website, etc. that is usually thematically … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteHarmonizing. What an evil thing to do to such a benevolent word. Banned in Beijing – NYTimes.com. (Nicholas Kristof, Jan. 22, 2011) I really think we should STOP trying to help the Chinese government. I keep getting these invitations from … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists Fault Universities as Favoring Research Over Teaching – Research – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Yup. Heard it before. The entire time I was at the University of Calgary I kept hearing about how important research was and based … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteFacebook, Friends, and Online Schooling | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice. I think he’s right. That does not mean that FB is a waste of time or the online learning doesn’t work, although both are true at … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesOn leisure and the academic lifestyle | Virtual Canuck. I often see posts from academics about how demanding and busy the lifestyle is. For some reason most of the posts I’ve seen like this come from faculty in Education. I … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s a short post from Clark Quinn about making communication work even when we don’t really share the same language: Pidgin Learning Very nicely put. I’ve been mired the writing of two chapters of my book that talk about definitions, … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesThis question came up on one of the forums I follow. Discussions like this come up so frequently, that the only conclusion I can come to is that there is no general agreement on what many words mean. Unfortunately, we … Continue reading