Jay Cross walsed me to an corporate blog entry of Tony O'Driscoll. The podcast of Thomas Malone (June 2007) talks about the important shift to more freedom for future workers. Tony O'D is comparing it to the shift towards democracy... well, I dream about more humanised and personal designed workloads, so I am definitely into this change. The only remark I have in looking at MMORPGs as free decision making environments is... the fact that you need to walk the path within the game. The only freedom in the game is limited to those choices that were designed in the game itself.
And an interesting article 'Another Life' of both Jay and Tony in eLearn magazine. With an added bonus to the Second Life - Moodle mash-up: Sloodle.
Sloodle! I will know what to do in my sparetime this vacation.
Because my educational Institute is involved in education with developing countries, Second Life seems far off. On the other hand new technologies get embraced more rapid in these regions once ICT/mobile network kicks in.
To try-out all possibilities I will form a group of 'scouts' within the institute to try out the Second Life environment, make a network and brainstorm about educational possibilities.
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Tuesday, 26 June 2007
second life wiki
reading up on possible implications of second life at the wiki of Jo Kay and Sean FitzGerald.
and found an interesting link at Tony Karrer which send me to a Harvard Law course which uses the Second Life environment.
and found an interesting link at Tony Karrer which send me to a Harvard Law course which uses the Second Life environment.
Monday, 25 June 2007
trying out second life
Second life is used for eLearning purposes... but does it work? What is the outcome? Well, at least I got myself a name, now all I need to do is adjust my avatar.
To get started I enrolled myself in the Gender Square. This landmark was developed by a friend of mine Jewel.
To get started I enrolled myself in the Gender Square. This landmark was developed by a friend of mine Jewel.
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
enterprise 2.0 from Helen
A great post about enterprise 2.0 by Helen and picked up by social computing magazine.
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
reshaping an Institute to become Web2.0 literate? No problem
Moving an Institute of around 350 colleagues and with students that consist of medical professionals from developing countries into the web-era... that is easy. Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh. Let me see, the only things that need to be done are:
get some key-people interested,
consider gender and cultural differences,
get peer-2-peer interaction going,
map communities that are already existing and lure them into the virtual world,
get them acquainted with new softwares,
let them enjoy themselves,
build their online awareness and self confidence,
map a learning trajectory so the ones that are interested can get into the social learning software if they want to, but do not want to jump into it alone
...
Somewhere along these lines change is possible, but from time to time, I just look like this:
Luckily I am part of a very creative and innovative team that makes any work look like fun.
get some key-people interested,
consider gender and cultural differences,
get peer-2-peer interaction going,
map communities that are already existing and lure them into the virtual world,
get them acquainted with new softwares,
let them enjoy themselves,
build their online awareness and self confidence,
map a learning trajectory so the ones that are interested can get into the social learning software if they want to, but do not want to jump into it alone
...
Somewhere along these lines change is possible, but from time to time, I just look like this:
Luckily I am part of a very creative and innovative team that makes any work look like fun.
Friday, 15 June 2007
10 Open Source Apps
This post says it all: 10 open source applications you can't live without. BTW: I really love audicity.
Thursday, 14 June 2007
Unicef proposal almost finished
At ITM we are currently working on an eLearning proposal for Unicef. We have made it to the shortlist. The last preparations of the annex are almost finished so we all keep our fingers crossed.
Red Hot Learning Rocks!
Great news from the gaming front. Red Hot Learning was a finalist in the prestigious Games for Change event in New York. They got a lot of media attention with their Redistricting Game.
Go forth and play!
Tuesday, 12 June 2007
powerpoint or not, humour or not in eLearning
A reoccuring topic in our institute is whether or not humour is a functional tool in eLearning and whether or not Powerpoints can be used in eLearning.
As a stand-up-edian, I am of course all in favor for humour as a tool to engage the students mind. A classic example in why engaging the student is very important can be found in the movie Ferris Bueller's day off on YouTube.
For those who doubt if humour can add to the learning process:
This example has been used by Donald Clark manager and learning specialist.
Powerpoint discussion: there has been a long discussion on the use of powerpoint in eLearning, the latest in that discussion.
If you want to know more about the discussion on the use of powerpoints.
Written by eLearning specialist Tony Karrer.
As a stand-up-edian, I am of course all in favor for humour as a tool to engage the students mind. A classic example in why engaging the student is very important can be found in the movie Ferris Bueller's day off on YouTube.
For those who doubt if humour can add to the learning process:
This example has been used by Donald Clark manager and learning specialist.
Powerpoint discussion: there has been a long discussion on the use of powerpoint in eLearning, the latest in that discussion.
If you want to know more about the discussion on the use of powerpoints.
Written by eLearning specialist Tony Karrer.
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