A big hello to all my visitors
Flags from 25 Country Visitors I use Blogcounter to see how many total visits I get to my blog and one of the features that I really like is that is shows the top 30 domains that have visited. I’ve had people from at least 25 different countries take a peek at my blog and […]
Empowerment of Women through Adult Education Conference
If I had money/time to get to a conference…..(http://www.chmwsc-inconf.org/index.htm) International Conference on Empowerment of Women through Adult Education September 29-30,2007 The Objectives of the two-day Conference are as follows : To explore the phenomenon of dropouts/exclusion of large sections of the population from education systems in spite of the universal acceptance of the significance of […]
Does m-learning have to involve course material?
I was just considering this question this weekend after pulling out my phone for the 6th or 7th time to look something up. Looking at the wikipedia it appears that maybe I was learning throughout the weekend. The scope of mobile learning includes: Children and students using handheld computers, PDAs or handheld voting systems in […]
Strategies & Techniques for Building ILS (eLearning Guild Online Forum)
Okay, well as another session wraps to a close…. This session was also extremely interesting and had some great point to think of when creating/thinking of ILS (immersive learning simulations), but in the end was a commercial. The software tool being toted here by Chris Crawford was Storytron. It does seem promising but is still […]
Using Avatars to Enhance Learning Comprehension – (eLearning Guild Online Forum)
Just finishing up another online forum through the eLearning Guild. This one was presented by Jennifer Hoch & Dan Karwoski from Intuit. They were explaining and demonstrating how they use avatars for training with their employees. There was information on the impact on students including increased engagement and intrinsic motivation. Also that learners tend to […]
LOMAK – Hands free light operated mouse and keyboard
Having a disabled person within my family, I think this is a wonderful idea and apparently so does the 2007 International Design Excellence Awards. Lomak created a hands free keyboard and mouse that tracks a small light device that is mounted on to the users’ head. Importantly each entry (keystroke) is confirmed before being inputted.
Creating a List of Things to Do
I keep having a post that Wendy Wickham wrote this week pop into my head. It referred to several things she wanted to try to attempt over the coming year. At eLearnDevCon she came up with wanting to: Build an educational game. Seriously upgrade my Flash and ActionScript chops. Figure out how to build Google […]
Checkers has 500 trillion play positions, but ends perfectly with a draw.
I found this interesting today. The University of Alberta has used dozens of computers for 18 years to compute every possible position play for checkers. Yep…checkers. In the end they computationally proved that there are 500 trillion (that’s 500,000,000,000,000,000,000) play positions and if each player makes no mistakes throughout a game it ends in a […]
Southpark & Simpsons Me
Just for the fun of it. Here’s a representation of me if I was a character on Southpark (make you). And…. Simpons me (make you – took forever to get a picture loaded in though).
ILS – Immersive Learning Simulations Genesis (eLearning Guild online forum)
Just sat through the opening session for this month’s eLearning Guild Online Forum for Strategies and Techniques for Building Immersive Learning Simulations . Jeff Johannigman was the opening speaker and did a fabulous job defining ILS, testing participants if certain items were ILS, and explained many of the elements needed to create ILS. (The more […]