This go-round, Im at the other end of things: in a much-needed lull between projects, taking a breather. Reading Im still in the midst of The Adult Learner by Malcolm Knowles et al. Photo credits: Oh boy tinker toys! Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. MORE

Im sorry but it just had to be said.if This film is not subtle - cmon, its based on a line of toys - it is unremittingly violent but not in a 300 kind of way. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Happy July 4th - Independence Day In the U.S. Main | Bandwagon Alert!! I got my iPhone! » July 05, 2007 Nothing to do with learning.but Transformers ROCKS! MORE

link] April 12-16, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL 2010), 3 rd , hosted by National Central University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. link] May 17-20, 2010 Learning Impact 2010 and The Summit on Global Learning : Industry Challenges, sponsored by IMS Global Learning Consortium, Long Beach, California, USA. Clayton Wright just sent me his incredible annual list of eLearning Conferences. MORE

link] May 11-14, 2009 Learning Impact 2009: The Summit on Global Learning and Industry Challenges hosted by the IMS Global Learning Consortium, Barcelona, Spain. Once again, Clayton Wright has been nice enough to compile an incredible list of conferences focused on use of technology in learning. Clayton publishes this as a Word document but does not publish it as a web page. He has generously allowed me to republish here. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. His notes on the list. MORE

link] March 27-30, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL 2012), 4 th , Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan. Clayton R. Wright has done his 26th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. It covers events from four continents. MORE

A study is cited in which researchers looked at brain activity while subjects learned how to build a structure with Tinker Toys. Im no neuroscientist, but these kinds of images get me excited -- seeing which areas of the brain light up. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Learning from Observation This post, from the Eide Neurolearning Blog got me thinking about motivation in e-learning. MORE

Main | I dont want to go to another conference EVER that does not recycle » February 18, 2008 GDC Update 2: Starting the day with Raph ( BTW - I will go back later and add pics/links/etc to these posts but unbelievably, internet access is wicked spotty here and Im trying to get out what I ca n) So GDC is now a world of summits. read Broken Toys). e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « GDC Update 1: Geez My Hotel Room is Small! MORE

Main | Im tired people, so Im only going to say this about 1,000 more times. He/she needs to think about the negative reaction that could come about if the enterprise has something like IM deployed but the boss won’t let the Gamer see if he is online or available. The critical question is of course – why gadgets over toys? e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « I swear.this is why people switch to Apple. MORE

Clayton Wright has done his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. This list is focused mostly on the first half of the year: January to June 2011. And it covers a broad range of types of topics. Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, CHECK the specific conference website. MORE

Im not sure how this relates to danah boyds recent blog article on Viewing American class divisions through FaceBook and MySpace. Im a major geek, yet I avoid Second Life and continue to be skeptical about its use in elearning. Personally, Im less interested in the gaming gender divide and more in the fact that we are all so infatuated with moving elearning into virtual worlds when we havet even engaged properly with the current technologies. MORE

link] March27-30, 2012 IEEE InternationalConference on DigitalGame and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL 2012), 4 th , Takamatsu, Kagawa,Japan. Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences for January to June 2012 Clayton R. Wright has done his 26th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year. You can contact him at: crwr77 [@] gmail.com This 26th version of the conference list covers selected events from four continents. MORE

Published by the IMS Global Learning Consortium, LTI eliminates the need for custom integration between LTI-compliant tool consumers and tool providers allowing organizations to choose from a variety of best-of-breed tools that can be deployed quickly and easily. To put it in layman’s terms, think of the LTI standard as a universal charging cable that connects to any type of device: mobile phone, camera, flashlight, portable speaker, toy, etc. MORE