Archive for the year 2011

2012 Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds Conference Announcement and Dates

Posted on 22. Dec, 2011 by .

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The 2012 Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds Conference will be held May 16 (workshops) and May 17-18 (main conference program) at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Registration will be available in January through pay.gov. Registration fees for onsite participation is $75 per day ($75 for workshops and $150 for main conference program). Registration [...]

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Instructional Game Projects

Posted on 21. Dec, 2011 by .

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As I begin to reflect upon this year coming to a close, I have to admit that I am pretty excited about two instructional game projects of which I have been involved. Here are videos describing each project. You can link here for additional information. You can link here for additional information.

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Winning Student Presentation at CAC

Posted on 20. Dec, 2011 by .

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Every year I talk about our Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) conference at Bloomsburg University and describe how well the students perform at that event. They present a solution to a Request for Proposal (RFP) to a group of corporate professionals (many are alums of the program). The corporate professionals evaluate each groups written proposal, prototype [...]

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Great TED Video by Salman Khan

Posted on 16. Dec, 2011 by .

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The man who created Khan Academy talks about education in this thought provoking video.

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Gamification, Virtual Worlds and The Gartner Hype Cycle

Posted on 15. Dec, 2011 by .

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For those of you who do not know, the Gartner Hype Cycle is a graphical depiction of technology on a curve showing where technology is in terms of maturity. The Hype Cycle provides strategists and planners with an assessment of the maturity, business benefit and future direction of certain technologies. The hype cycle has five [...]

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Great TED Video by Tom Chatfield: 7 ways video games engage the brain

Posted on 14. Dec, 2011 by .

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Here is a great TED Video that clearly details the ways that video games engage us, transfix us and compel us to action. Tom Chatfield also describes how video games are data collection machines and they are constantly collecting data on players. Imagine what a learner professional can do with all those data points in [...]

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Resources for Two Recent Presentations

Posted on 13. Dec, 2011 by .

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Here are slides, links and other information from two webinars I conducted. One was part of the eLearning Guild’s Online Forums, I spokeon the topic of Gamification of learning and instruction. The other was for NETWORKS which is an Advanced Technology Education (ATE) National Resource Center funded, in part, by the National Science Foundation. Here [...]

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Bloomsburg University Alumni Speaks at TEDxWilliamsport

Posted on 12. Dec, 2011 by .

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An alumni of our instructional technology program here at Bloomsburg had the opportunity to present at the TEDxWilliamsport event and did a fantastic job. Mark is the President of viaAcademies active in our Corporate Advisory Council and a creator of some really innovative learning products for kids. Here are Mark’s remarks from the TEDx event, [...]

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Great TED Video by David Perry: Are Games Better Than Life

Posted on 08. Dec, 2011 by .

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Take a look at this interesting video about games and see if you agree. The points raised are interesting.

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Games Article Published in Online Training Magazine

Posted on 07. Dec, 2011 by .

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Here is a link to an article by Margery Weinstein with an interview from me and great additional pieces and interviews with James Sharpe, senior vice president, Strategic Solutions, PDI Ninth House and Chris Musselwhite, Sue Kennedy, and Sue Probst of Discovery Learning Inc. In the article, Get Your Head in the Game, I discuss [...]

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