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July 6, 2007 at 1:48 pm · Filed under coolstuff, gaming and narrative
Modders are people who go into video games and do their own fiddling, with the characters, textures etc. Like Machinima, where people create their own comic or movies that have in-game graphics, the learning the happens here is remarkable. First teachers can mod games to match learning outcomes, then students too can mod games and make predictions of what’s going to happen in new scenarios. Both of these get at narrative structures and the ability for a learner to manipulate and participate in complex narratives.
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February 12, 2007 at 10:26 pm · Filed under coolstuff, trends, web2.0
I just tried out
http://zoho.com/, a web-based office suite with added features like a notebook where you can drag and drop text, pictures, videos all in one interface.
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us at YouTube is a fascinating digital ethnography.
A demo of an “interface free” computer.
April 26, 2006 at 10:17 pm · Filed under Collaboration, Community, Students, coolstuff
CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. I haven’t tried it out yet, but sounds interesting
