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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "U.S. Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think" (WIRED)

Mark Oehlert

million contract between the DIA and defense contractor Concurrent Technologies. The titles may conjure images of blitzkrieg, but the games themselves are actually a surprisingly clever and occasionally surreal blend of education, humor and intellectual challenge, aimed at teaching the player how to think." books futures Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Open Laszlo Gets Its Own Track and Big Customers for the open source webtop platform

Mark Oehlert

Here is a little something for my geek bros and siss: "Temkin has always been careful to underline how one important thingabout OpenLaszlo is that it doesnt lock you into the Flash player,even though it takes advantage of Flash as a standard ubiquitousruntime. Laszlo is abstract from the Flash player. books futures Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Does anyone else see "Student Records" in "Data Portability"?

Mark Oehlert

enable interoperability among learning systems and the technologies that support collaboration and community, including social networks, community learning, wikis, blogs, multiplayer games, and the emerging world of user generated content? Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Where Do You Begin (Part II)

Mark Oehlert

" Mobile Learning: The Next Step in Technology-Mediated Learning by Ellen Wagner: I think Ellen goes a long way here to help move the discussion away from one purely focused on devices and instead looks at those experiences we are looking to engineer. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0

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Something is Going on Down there in the LMS Market

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Over 98% do not have a true HTML5 player in their system that can run a 100% pure HTML5 course – which by the way, has nothing to do with the browser agnostic pitch they make about their system being optimized for the iPad. I’m sure they tested with IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome, but what about Opera Mini? Dolphin HD?

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Small Basket of Virtual World Items

Mark Oehlert

" "MMOs help players develop and exercise a skill set closely matching the thinking, planning, learning, and technical skills increasingly in demand by employers." Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0 From the land of Huh?

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Single-Site Browsers: Interesting Design Development or Battle for the Desktop?

Mark Oehlert

MSFT, Adobe and Firefox are among the big players developing ways to run Web apps (e.g. TechCrunch has a great article which looks at the major efforts through the lens of Firefoxs effort - Prism. But Prism has one big advantage: akiller app in the form of Firefox. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us

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