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BP Spill NOT Fun and Games.but games could help

Kapp Notes

In the 1970's a board game called Offshore Oil Strike was created by BP and it has a number of elements related to the current spill situation. The goal of the game is become an oil tycoon by digging for oil offshore and, naturally, players encounter hazards such as blow outs and oil spills and clean up costs.

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Best Mobile LMS for Sellers: An Overview of the Top 4 Platforms Available Today

BigTinCan

Learning sessions are too long (because no one wants to log into a computer for a thirty-minute+ lesson). That’s what we’ll address with this article. For this reason, Bigtincan keeps lessons accessible from the main home screen, and uses easy-to-navigate folders with clear progress indicators. With Bigtincan they can: .

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"Correcting the violent video game rhetoric" (CNet.com)

Mark Oehlert

This article correctly takes to task people who will vehemently oppose a game having never played it. Now GTA IV has already sold a couple million copies so a powerful and violent as this game is, we should be seeing a tsunami of child violence land upon our shores any minute now. But it won't. You know why? Same with the kids.

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Learning Theories, Innovation, eLearning, & Leadership

Big Dog, Little Dog

If you don't, the only useful lesson seems to be to quit your job and go work for Apple. As Offshoring Gets Realistic, Can IT Workers Relax? While this article is directed at IT workers, it applies to just about all of us. Five Common Mistakes in Innovation - Business Week. Globalization is an inevitable thing."

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Correcting the violent video game rhetoric" (CNet.com)

Mark Oehlert

This article correctly takes to task people who will vehemently oppose a game having never played it. Now GTA IV has already sold a couple million copies so a powerful and violent as this game is, we should be seeing a tsunami of child violence land upon our shores any minute now. But it wont. You know why? Same with the kids.

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Lost in Translation

Big Dog, Little Dog

Although this article, Lost in Translation , from CIO magazine is about outsourcing, it has plenty of lessons for the succeful transfer of knowlege within an organization The successful transfer of knowledge to an offshore vendor everything from programming expertise to what users expect from a system can make or break a project.