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ARIS Design Jam, Oct 17-19

23-Sep-11

Come join us in the Town Center of WID for 3 days of ARIS design!* No experience needed (but we encourage you to play with it ahead of time!) — we will have “how-to” components for those who are new to ARIS or need help designing their first ARIS game. We will also run a series of [...]

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Communities and Networks

19-May-11

I was reading “Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks: a conceptual framework” (PDF) from Wenger (the “Communities of Practice” guy) and his colleagues, and came across this section on the value, danger, and challenge of communities and networks for learning. Its application to my work is timely as we reassess our goals and priorities, and plan [...]

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Marker Music

27-Apr-11

Markermusic.com is one of the coolest place-centric mashups of user production that I’ve seen. Wow. The idea is simply to record a riff based on another riff, ala the famous YouTube video inbflat.net project. Oh here, let me steal their explanation — marker/music is an interactive sound and music map created by Darren Solomon, the students [...]

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ARIS Global Game Jam 2011

26-Apr-11

If you’ve not already read about in the Daily Page or on MacArthur’s Digital Media Spotlight, on April 18-20, we held our first “Global” ARIS jam. There were over a hundred participants from Columbia, the Netherlands, and Spain, and the U.S. including folks from the Minnesota Historical Society, 3M, Oregon Middle School, Whitewater Middle School, [...]

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Mass Customization in Learning

14-Apr-11

An interesting article, Why Large-Scale Product Customization Is Finally Viable for Business, coming out of Forrester discusses how Mass Customization is the Next Big Thing in industry. But the points made are pervading all aspects of society. Consider this excerpt: Psychologists have determined that an “I Designed It Myself Effect” exists in mass customization, where buyers feel a [...]

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Wired for Mobile?

07-Mar-11

Putting aside the generalizations encompassed in the term “digital natives” (e.g. not all kids these days are D.N.s) — check out what many of your students are doing, and are used to. How are we meeting them halfway? This infographic from Voxy encapsulates a slice of it. Via: Voxy Blog

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2011 Horizon Report

28-Feb-11

The new Horizon Report has been out for a few days. The Six Technologies are no surprise to those of us who have been advocating and developing mobile learning practices and tools. They are: mobile computing open content electronic books simple augmented reality gesture-based computing visual data analysis If these look at all familiar, it [...]

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Social Media High School

23-Feb-11

This may be the funniest and most succinct way to understand the current state of social media, featuring a high school portrait, list of clubs they’d be in, and favorite quote. (The class clown still needs to be identified). All the sites are represented: Twitter, Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, Last.fm, YouTube, Flickr, Reddit, MySpace, WikiLeaks, Yelp, [...]

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Twitter in Learning

21-Feb-11

Social Media has a far larger influence on the lives of teachers and learners than traditional models of education are prepared to deal with. But at its heart, it nothing new. Says Joshua Fisher: “Yes, today you can chat with friends, collaborate on projects, read the news, play games, or share videos of your kids, [...]

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Extra Credits (watch!)

01-Feb-11

I ran into one of these videos last Spring. Hosted by The Escapist, it’s apparently now a series of videos that makes the theory behind a variety of video game related topics very accessible. Although I use the phrase “theory behind” the talent behind it really does a great job of making it all very [...]

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