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Something all learning pro’s should do

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I think it stemmed from my love of history and my desire to understand what the enemy soldiers were saying in the movies. As a teenager I developed a fascination for the German language. Over the years I dabbled by doing a class, listening to tapes, buying an English-German dictionary and reading a few language books.

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Network Theory

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In the game, players try to connect random movie stars to Kevin Bacon in as few steps as possible. Cate was in the movie The Shipping News with Deborah Grover, who was in Where the Truth Lies with Kevin Bacon. Take Cate Blanchett for example. Cate therefore has a “Bacon number&# of 2.

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Erin doesn’t get it

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It’s an excellent movie. I watched Erin Brockovich again last night. While it’s based on a true story, the producers have obviously used their poetic licence to boost its dramatic effect. Even though I know this, a particular scene that I didn’t like the first time around made we wince again.

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25 more real-world examples of Virtual Reality

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It reminds me of Batman Adventure at Australia’s Movie World back in 1992, when we all sat on moveable seats in front of a big screen simulating the batplane screaming through Gotham City. SeaWorld hybridises the real world with the virtual.

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The two types of augmented reality

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It’s just like adding cartoons to a movie set like they did in Who Framed Roger Rabbit , using CGI like they did in Star Wars , or even scribbling a moustache and devil horns onto someone’s photo. Instead, they are augmenting a representation of reality. In all these examples, the background isn’t real.

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The end of publishing as we know it

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Sure, we still tell stories in the form of books and movies – in fact we’re inundated with them – but I’m not alone in feeling that the big publishing houses and film studios of the world have hijacked the art of storytelling for the sake of pure entertainment. But somewhere along the journey we lost our way.

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Social media: It’s not about the technology!

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Field Of Dreams was just a movie. Disclaimer: These insights are not the result of any scientific analysis. Instead, they are the result of observation, conversation, experience, gut instinct, self-important opinion, and general naivety. Just because you build it, doesn’t necessarily mean they will come.