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Developing Us 08 Presentation – Games to challenge and engage learners
We had a big institute wide talkfest and professional development day here last week and my colleague aAron and I ran a short session on games in learning. Overall people seemed interested but problems...
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Investigating: Possible applications of First Person Perspective/Shooter...
Yep, it’s this old hobby-horse again but I still believe that FPP/FPS games can prove useful in education. Research into this field is still a little scant but I have found some useful stuff – not...
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Eduversal Studios
We’re working on a pretty cool project at CIT now – developing models, practices and standards for using virtual worlds in the classroom, with a particular focus on the Vocational Education and...
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GamesMOOC – Participant contributions (Part 1)
I left out the wealth of participant contributions in my recent overviews of the first five weeks of GamesMOOC and I’m not entirely sure why. I suspect it was because there are so many great...
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Auti-sim – Amazing (and horrible) autism hypersensitivity simulator
Auti-sim – Amazing (and horrible) autism hypersensitivity simulator This post from Ars Technica showcases an amazing sim created in Unity 3D that gives a sense of what it might be like to experience...
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Games in Education – some thoughts from Extra Credit (Penny Arcade)
The people at Extra Credit, an online cartoon mini-lecture about all facets of games, always have some interesting ideas to share about games. This video about some of the issues facing the successful...
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