There are lessons that can be learned on how to use games in learning. wrote a blog article last year about what the 80's movie WarGames teaches us about learning games. Some of these lessons are: Games can be used to simulate real work situations. Recently I wrote a blog article called Learning Lessons from Black Ops. In that blog post I wrote about techniques this Call of Duty game uses to teach you about the game as you play (i.e. You don't need 3-D graphics to implement the most important lessons! I'm a child of the 80's. learning on the job). MORE >>

So what can it teach us? So thank you Kid Fury for teaching us those lessons – whether you meant to or not! Today I read about the Twitter misadventure at H&R Block whereby a call centre employee assuming the name “Kid Fury&# urged all his followers to phone in and ask for him. It was his final day of work with that employer, so he thought it a harmless last hurrah. That was until it went viral and H&R Block call centres across the country were jammed with fools asking for Kid Fury. The incident is kinda funny, kinda shocking, kinda scary. MORE >>

Are these characteristics in “e-teaching” friend or foe to e-learning? This post is a reminder that teaching style is just as important as learning styles. And e-teaching style is just as important as e-learning styles. The e-learning world can learn a lesson from popular media—when given a choice of similar topic material, people will establish preference and loyalty to certain voices and personalities in large part because of their personal style, charisma, cleverness, creativity, … personality. Lew, “Teaching and the Teacher’s Personality,” Education Journal ). MORE >>

Together, they combined years of professional programming experience to create Teaching Kids Programming  (TKP). She first began piecing together the outline of what would eventually become Teaching Kids Programming a few years ago when she started a local series of events for Microsoft’s Digigirlz  program. So I used my professional background and modeled lessons off of what I thought my daughter would want to see in technology courses to get the Orange County group up and running.”. Teaching yourself programming. Can’t see the video? Click  here. Lynn Langit. MORE >>

This presentation reviews lessons learned in exploring 50 web sites (tools) for creating content via slideshows, timelines, media mixers, comic strips, and presentation makers—and shows how the same story can be told 50 different ways " - Alan Levine Actually, Alan Levine's presentation shows how the same story can be told 49 different ways, using 49 different free Web 2.0 Tags: e-learning learning tools teaching and learning 50 Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story 50 Ways to Tell The Dominoe Story SlideShare Presentation & Audio podcast (51.2 tools (Amazingly useful anyway!)! Yes!). MORE >>