Links for today
Who plays, how much and why? Dmitri Williams, Nick Yee and colleagues have published the first results from a Sony Online supported study into Everquest 2 players. With a rare item gift in-game for...
View ArticleYamake – game maker for Nokia mobile phones
It was surely only a matter of time… “Yamake is a groundbreaking new game for the N-Gage platform. Players can make, play and share games that are customized using user-generated multimedia content,...
View ArticleComputer Programming as Digital Literacy
If the so-called ‘Digital Natives’ don’t know how to program a computer, are they really digitally literate? In his blog, Tony Forster presents an “argument for the authoring of interactive or...
View ArticleInnovation in Application Development – Teaching Programming in FE
The Scottish Further Education Unit are organising the Innovation in Application Development event on the 1st of April in Stirling: Scotland’s Colleges, in association with representatives from Apple...
View Article10th HEA ICS programming workshop
(After a number of slow months with few posts, March looks a lot busier as I try to get back into the habit of keeping notes!) The Higher Education Academy’s subject centre in Information and Computer...
View ArticleInnovation In Application Development
Writing today at the Innovation in Application Development event in Stirling, put together by Scotland’s Colleges (formerly SFEU). Just now Nigel Kennington is demonstrating using Alice to teach...
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Games:Edu 2010 roundup
I haven’t managed to make it to a Games:Edu event till now (the events previously had a tendency to clash with my vacations, and I sometimes get tired of travelling during the course of the year). I...
View ArticleCalls for Papers: VS-Games & Virtual Worlds III
Two recent calls, Virtual Worlds III (Paris in July, papers by 16th Feb.) & IEEE VS Games 2012 (Genoa in October, papers by 18th May) Virtual Worlds III has Craig Reynolds and Ken Perlin lined up...
View ArticleGame Based Learning / Serious Games Journals
Trying to rebuild a list of journals dealing specifically with game-based learning, serious games, and virtual worlds. Obviously, anything to do with digital media and learning or computers and...
View ArticleScratch 2 and Snap/BYOB 4
Scratch 2 is now in beta, here. Great timing, as just after a whole load of teacher resources for Scratch get published (CAS RPi manual, and RSE packs), Scratch 2.0 gets announced with a range of very...
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Festival of Dangerous Ideas
I’m not sure how many dangerous ideas there will be (some?), but the Festival of Dangerous Ideas will be taking place around Scotland in June. From the Festival web-site: The Festival of Dangerous...
View ArticleDanger! Gamification!
Today I was speaking at the Learning through Gaming event at Dundee College, part of the Festival of Dangerous ideas organised by the College Development Network. Gerry Dougan asked me if I wanted to...
View ArticleLearning to code – local, national, international, online
I learned about yet another coding/computing for kids thing today… the South East Scotland ComputerXPlorers, part of what seems to be an international franchise operation of local programming clubs...
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