BBC News – Internet Archive puts classic 70s and 80s games online

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutes  BBC News – Internet Archive puts classic 70s and 80s games Classic video games from the 1970s and 1980s have been put online by the Internet Archive and can be played within a web browser for nothing. The collection … Continue reading

Where I’ve Been Online (Dec. 21 2013)

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Calm Look at the Most Hyped Concept in Neuroscience – Mirror Neurons – Wired Science “Last year I suggested that mirror neurons are the most hyped concept in neuroscience. Discovered in the 90s by neuroscientists in Italy studying monkeys, … Continue reading

Serious Game Alumni Interview #3 with Katrin Becker | Games and Meaningful Play @ Michigan State University

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteSerious Game Alumni Interview #3 with Katrin Becker | Games and Meaningful Play @ Michigan State University. This is an interview with me about my experience at Michigan State University taking their new Graduate Certificate Program in Serious Game Design … Continue reading

BBC News – Harvard plans to boldly go with ‘Spocs’

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteBBC News – Harvard plans to boldly go with ‘Spocs’. How are “Spocs” different from other small private online courses (i.e. the ones we’ve been doing for well over a decade)? … Aside from have a sexy new acronym, I … Continue reading

Places I’ve Been (to Dec. 7, 2013)

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteMathigon | World of Mathematics tags: Math ebook education interactive learning Breaking Barriers: Video Games as Tools for Learning and Recovery | THE Tech Scoop “Many parents see video games as time-wasting distractions and encourage their children to stop playing … Continue reading

Signature Pedagogies in Education

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesInstructional Design Collaboration: A Professional Learning and Growth Experience ~ Stephen’s Web. Amid a dozen of so papers that could have been wrritten in the 1990s is this position paper in the current issue of the Journal of Online Learning … Continue reading

Places I’ve Been (to Nov. 23, 2013)

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteSharing fast and slow: The psychological connection between how we think and how we spread news on social media » Nieman Journalism Lab “In the previous study, I presented data analysis that examined how users read and share Boston Globe … Continue reading

Places I’ve Been (to Nov. 9, 2013)

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteChess 2: The Sequel – How a street fightin’ man fixed the world’s most famous game • Articles • Android • Eurogamer.net “ By Christian Donlan Published Sunday, 3 November 2013 Chess has problems. Not for most of us, perhaps … Continue reading