Presented to the Best Practices in Upgrading Online,Calgary, via Adobe Connect, March 29, 2011 The very first thing I want to do is to counter thedisclaimer that frightened me as this session opened, it was very loud, andsaid all kinds of things about how this was all private and cannot be shared.You can share this presentation all you want. MORE >>

Even more critically, not every bit of information presented to you in life will be a fact, and you need some mechansism to detect and reject false representations of facts. Skills can neither be taught nor applied effectively without prior knowledge of a wide array of subjects." Second , it isn't wrong to teach facts. Second. Third. Fourth. MORE >>

Presentation of self on the Web: an ethnographic study of teenage girls’ weblogs. Submission for a forthcoming STRIDE handbook for The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). See related handbooks here. What is a Blog? blog is a personal website that contains content organized like a journal or a diary. Bortree, D.S., 2005). 2005). MORE >>

But the question to ask yourself is, what is a game doing for you that a straight-forward presentation of the information is not? You're not getting new users, you're not presenting material in any way that's easier to understand, you're not adding to motivation. I get to play a government scientist on the internet. Maybe not. MORE >>

Consequently, games and simulations fall into a category similar to lectures and presentations in that they involve statically designed learning objectives and strategies. Game-Based Learning: Present and Future State of the Field. Future developments will focus on realizing these concepts as software or at least software prototypes. MORE >>