It looks like Gartner is jumping into virtual punditry if this press release on BusinessWire is any indication. It states emphatically “By the end of 2011, 80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 enterprises) will have a “second life,” but not necessarily in Second Life.” Really, 80%? That’s quite a turn around […]
Archive for April, 2007
80% of Internet Users to Have a “Second Life”
Published April 28th, 2007 in Culture, Emerging Technologies, Uncategorized and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsGeneration “G”
Published April 21st, 2007 in Culture, Educational Technologies, Marketing, Uncategorized and User Experience. 0 CommentsThis just in from the department of astute observations: Andrew Eglinton, a student at the University of London, posted this on his blog last year:
“Generations born after the early 90’s in industrialized countries will not know the world without Internet. This is generation G and they sit on a cultural and evolutionary hinge, between old […]
Repeaters, Not Reporters
Published April 21st, 2007 in Culture, Educational Technologies and Uncategorized. 1 CommentThe way that the NCEE report “Effectiveness of Reading and Mathamatics Software” was misinterpreted as a damnation of educational technology was deconstructed this week by Gregg Downey, Editor of eSchool News. Besides setting the record straight, he also takes the press to task for their knee-jerk reporting only the summary of a preliminary report. Very […]
Serious Games in Business
Published April 19th, 2007 in Emerging Technologies, Serious Games and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsDr. Richard Hackathorn of Boulder Technologies writes on the Business Intelligence Network about Serious Games in Virtual Worlds: The Future of Enterprise Business Intelligence. Using game and simulation technologies for intelligence analysis is hardly new but their use for this purpose beyond of the defense and intelligence industry is.
Hackathorn brings his expertise in data warehousing […]
Serious Game Videos
Published April 18th, 2007 in Educational Technologies, Serious Games, Uncategorized, User Experience and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 1 CommentSerious Games is a new web community and blog built by Adrian of Coventry, UK. He’s assembled the best collection of web videos covering serious games and educational technology I’ve seen and it a good demo of the Ning.com platform.
Did You Know…
Published April 16th, 2007 in Culture, Educational Technologies, Uncategorized, User Experience and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsThe slides ask repeatedly, “Did you know…” and then fill in an answer or analogy. “Did you know… If you’re one in a million in China there are 1,300 people just like you?
That in 2002 Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research but U.S. Government spent less than half as much on Education?
That there […]
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