OK, the video’s been out for a while but here’s another reason social networks are important. Can’t everybody just get along?
Archive for May, 2008
Social Networking Alternative
Published May 31st, 2008 in Culture, Social Networking and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsSocial Networking on the Rise
Published May 30th, 2008 in Business & Finance, Culture, Social Networking, Uncategorized, User Experience and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsFrom the number of inquiries we receive and the projects we’re managing lately — blogs, forums, wikis, user content sites, multi-player games and sims — it’s clear there’s tremendous demand for social networking. Out of curiosity I pinged Indeed.com and found this trajectory for social networking jobs:
“social networking” Job Trends
“social networking” […]
What Happens Here Doesn’t Stay Here
Published May 28th, 2008 in Educational Technologies, Serious Games and User Experience. 0 CommentsDoes what you experience and learn in virtual environments like MMOGs and videogames have any relevance to real life?
Thought leaders like Jim Gee and researchers like Jeremy Bailenson, director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL), assert that it does. Bailenson has been studying ways that online behavior affects daily life (.pdf) and in […]
The New Convergence
Published May 20th, 2008 in Business & Finance, Educational Technologies, Serious Games, Social Networking and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsThe new convergence of products that combine aspects of online games and simulations, social networking and user generated content in the service of learning was the topic of our panel at the SIIA’s annual Ed Tech Industry Summit:
Krista Marks, Chief Executive Officer, Kerpoof
Carly Shuler, The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
Dave McCool, President, Muzzy […]
Death of Education > Birth of Learning
Published May 13th, 2008 in Culture, Educational Technologies, Uncategorized and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsWhile students embrace mobile always-connected media and devices, virtual environments, and social networks in their daily lives, schools still rely on teaching methods that were used generations ago. This short video Learning to Change, Changing to Learn, which was produced by CoSN and the Pearson Foundation, argues that this dichotomy signals the death of education […]
The Search Game
Published May 7th, 2008 in Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Serious Games and User Experience. 0 CommentsA shout out to Eliane Alhadeff for her recent post Search as a Serious Game which highlights a seriously cool search interface from SearchMe.com. A picture says a thousand words so file this under User Experience and go take it for a spin to see what web search + gamer centered design might look […]
Spy vs. Spy
Published May 6th, 2008 in Business & Finance, Culture, Educational Technologies and Serious Games. 0 CommentsAs a cold-war baby one of my favorite cartoon strips was Mad magazine’s Spy vs. Spy. That all flashed back to me a few years ago at the second Serious Games Summit in Crystal City, VA, just across the highway from the Pentagon.
There, it didn’t take long to realize — with equal measures of horror […]
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