Gee is such an absorbing read and lots of wonderfully quotable nuggets like: But all learning is … learning to play ‘the game’. For example, literary criticism and field biology are different ‘games’ played by different rules. (They are different sorts of activities requiring different values, tools, and ways of acting and thinking; they are […]
I had deliberately left it quite late in the evening last night before venturing into Second Life (SL) as I wanted some time on my own to refamiliarise myself with the SL environment, the user interface and to ensure I had the latest update from from SL as I knew that there would be a […]
As part of the “Introduction to Digital Game-based Learning”, this semester’s cohort have been made up of 4 teams of 6 people who will work together as a team to either construct game-based tasks (for others to participate in) or take part in game-based tasks that have been given to us, as well as giving […]
As a results of the “introduction to digital environments for learning” (IDEL) module and the research that I have been doing around the topic of digital literacy; I have crossed Marc Prensky’s path many times over; he should also add agent provocateur to his list of roles. It started with my IDEL essay called “Bridging […]
Prior to the “Understanding Learning in the Online Environment” module that I undertook last semester, I had used Delicious and Connotea as my principle web services for collecting, storing and sharing bookmarks, news articles and journal articles with my colleagues and interested parties. On the module, Hamish Macleod suggested that we might like to create […]
This is the first week of the “Introduction to Digital Game-based Learning” module. Over the next 12 weeks, we will be exploring the world of digital games in terms of ideas, concepts, issues and controversies and in particular how games can aid with the learning process – what lessons can be learnt if any? I […]
This is now Week 4 of the Learning Challenge (LC) and I’ve been a little naughty in that I have allowed the “Learner Analysis” assignment to interfere with the LC. The “Learner Analysis” assignment is due to be submitted on Sunday 26th October and I have probably spent more than is actually necessary on it. […]
It’s Week 1 of the Learning Challenge (LC) and I have set aside 30 minutes to practice the art of knotcraft. The first website I went to was “Knots: How to Tie Knots“; I was not impressed with the rather short but pedestrian instructions with the naff looking illustrations – if I was having trouble […]
Here we are again, a new term and a term module, this time it’s “Understanding Learning in the Online Environment” led by the incomparable Hamish Macleod. This is my third module to date and its looking good. My only concern is that 10% of the course assessment is based upon me writing something worthwhile on […]
It was going to be my intention to keep a semi-regular-ish posts on my engagement with the “Effective Course Design for e-Learning” module. As you can see – this didn’t happen! The first week introduced us to some of the current theories around styles of course design (Toohey, 1999) and how some of them might […]