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14 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 18

Upside Learning

With so much rich information for learners available and accessible on the Internet – everything from how to play the guitar to applications of the Pythagorean Theorem – how can the formal education system leverage all this within schools? Video Games: Where To Now For The UK Industry? Where Does Informal Learning Fit In?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Building Better Learning Games

Learning Visions

Thursday, April 09, 2009 Building Better Learning Games Interested in building casual games for your learners? Focus on casual video games. Games in a variety of shapes and sizes: Console Games (for the Xbox or Wii) MMORPG (Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game): World of War Craft, Club Penguins.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Games vs. Gaming

Learning Visions

Thursday, March 22, 2007 Games vs. Gaming The topic that kept me thinking late last night: the difference between games and gaming; between people who play computer games and so-called gamers. Heres my novice view on the differences between games and gaming: Games are short, finite experiences.

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Weapons of mass distraction

Learning with e's

Then came telecommunications, telephones, computers and the internet to transform the ways we could communicate across great distances. Whether it is a smartphone, e-reader or games console, people are willing to invest their full attention to the device in their hands. Such mass distraction centres upon the mobile, personal device.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: On Games and eLearning

Learning Visions

Monday, January 05, 2009 On Games and eLearning As eLearning designers, your goal is (hopefully) to make the learning experience engaging. And the best way to make it fun is to make it a game. Clark Quinn in Learning Predictions for 2009 : I continue to see interest in games, and naturally I’m excited. Yes, yes, yes!

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Schools and online education

Learning with e's

We worked with the Star Schools project to connect over 300 schools in the US state of South Dakota, installing fast internet, satellite television and full motion interactive video into classrooms. Way back in 2002 I was involved in one of the largest distance education projects the world had seen at the time. Unported License.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Video Games, Tire Swings and Learning

Learning Visions

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Video Games, Tire Swings and Learning My almost six-year old son LOVES video and computer games: Wii, Nintendo 64, computer, my iPod Touch. Son was struggling with a certain game for quite a while. Video games. I say GO GAMES! Gaming is life! I struggle with this. I love this story.

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