Sat.Mar 10, 2012 - Fri.Mar 16, 2012

Kapp Notes

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3D Virtual Worlds are NOT Dead, Dying or Disappearing

Kapp Notes

There are many reasons by I believe that virtual worlds are not dead, dying or disappearing. In fact, I believe that they are gaining momentum and are becoming more and more impactful as the technology gets better and more real world business cases are indicating the value of these environments, in addition there are several initiatives that are examples of the kinds of projects that are are driving virtual worlds.

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Educational Reform, Flipping the Classroom and Innovation

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Somethings things just come together in strange and exiting ways to trigger light bulbs and a different or accelerated way of thinking. You may have seen all of these videos before but together they make a powerful case for changing education and viewing instruction and learning in a new light. Additionally, I love the animated whiteboard technique.

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TED Gets into Education in a Much Bigger Way!

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TED, the organization that brings thought provoking and exciting talks to the web and around the world (a group is doing a TEDx event to Bloomsburg.more later) is launching the idea of TEDEd. It’s a wonderful idea. They are teaming up animators with master instructors to create engaging content to teach specific targeted concepts. The quick videos are designed to gain attention and education.

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Gamification Company Bunchball Makes Interesting Announcement

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Eariler this morning, the gamification company, Bunchball made an interesting announcement about the personalization of gamification, which ties nicely into my posting the other day– What Happened to the Promise of One-to-One Online Learning? (of course the announcement is unrelated to my blog posting but the company is going ahead in that conceptual direction and making inroads into online personalization on the commerce side, and, I am sure can be adapted to the learning side as well.).