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• Education, Gaming

  What we can learn about learning from videogames

  11.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  There were a lot of nodding of heads at Online today in response to Keith Stuart’s article in the Education Guardian.
  Well worth the read.

• Education, Events, BETT, Gaming

  Scottish Learning Festival

  09.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last week Online ventured north to the 2008 Scottish Learning Festival … always worth the trip because of the buzz around the show (and the fact that it’s far more manageable than London’s rather overwhelming BETT show).

  The show itself is ok, but the talks, meetings (e.g. Teachmeet) and case studies on offer around the festival […]

• Charities, Web 2.0, User generated, Gaming, Alternate Reality Games

  NG 2.0: Charities and the New Media

  09.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  On the internet, keeping up with the times is paramount. The web is practically synonymous with the cutting edge and it wouldn’t do to be caught out lagging. But the problem for those trying to navigate its evolution is that novelty and potential brush shoulders with the shallowness of fashion. When Facebook first grew in […]

• debate, Culture, Gaming, Rambles

  Turn Around, Square Eyes.

  08.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  They rot your brain. They impede your social development. They incite racism, misogyny, larceny, civil unrest. Sometimes, they can even kill you. Computer games and controversy have skipped through the last 30 years happily hand in hand; but whilst a great deal of the furore has revolved around the computer games industry’s peculiar […]

• Blogging, Gaming, Alternate Reality Games

  Alternate Reality Games and Education

  06.30.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  When my friends ask me what alternate reality games (ARGs) are, they usually say something like, “Second Life, right?” No, dear friends, no. It’s bigger than that, better! Sometimes they’re a little scared to ask because they know how over-excited I get with the prospect of being the first person to tell them […]

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