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Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1– How it Can Benefit Mobile Learning

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On Feb 15, 2010, at Mobile World Congress 2010, Adobe announced Adobe AIR for mobile devices, a consistent runtime for standalone applications which is an outcome of Adobe initiated Open-Screen project. To begin with it will be available on Android in 2010. Adobe also unveiled Flash platform 10.1

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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

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The game randomly presented the players – the public – with the questionable receipts. If a receipt looked suspicious, players could write a description and hit an Investigate This! To add an element of competition, a leaderboard tracked and displayed which players had made the most finds. All Rights Reserved.

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Is Your Measuring Stick Allowing You To Manage For The Better.

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Players ultimately developed, and their stats reflected that. There would be little argument as to how good a player was and what a player was worth. If baseball statistics had not developed to accurately evaluate a player or team, the game would have fallen out of favor with adults and returned to its original farm boy state.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

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For an excellent illustration of this problem, check out this great example provided by the always-interesting Cathy Moore (click the image to launch the Flash player): Courtesy of [link] So, why does narration in eLearning frequently do nothing more than parrot back what’s written on the screen? All Rights Reserved. Visit us at dashe.com

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What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning? | Social.

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After a game is complete, the coach will break down the film, showing players what they did right and wrong. This video shows Mike Montgomery running practice when he was head coach of the Stanford Cardinal men’s basketball team. Then, to prepare for the next opponent, the coach will show film of that opponent in action.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

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The Washington Post recently ran an article on Project MMOWGLI (Massively Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet), a new MMORPG being rolled out by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) that will allow thousands of players to participate in solving geopolitical crises created by hypothetical pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia.

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Game Based Learning 2010 – Recap: Day 1

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LBP on PS3 is a unique platform adventure game with a huge social community, which enables players to play, create, and share with others. The Smoke Screen Game ( Video available here ) for instance is a pure online game which lets players experience life online. They have done some truly brilliant work on Little Big Planet for Sony.

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