Designing software that could be used by people with differing abilities was a big part of building software for Pearson Education. Working there taught me a lot about Universal Design for Learning and making products accessible, so it’s refreshing to see this meme make its way into a game for the Wii — in this […]
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Wii for the Visually Impaired
Published July 2nd, 2008 in Uncategorized and User Experience. 0 CommentsCan You Grock It?
Published June 19th, 2008 in Educational Technologies, Serious Games and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsGrockit, a San Francisco startup which raised $2.7m several years ago to seed their game project has taken down an $8m B-round according to Ed Tech Design’s Sari Follansbee, who brought this to my attention today, and the company’s own press release:
Integral Capital Partners lead the $8M round with Benchmark Capital, who lead their Series […]
Social Networking Etiquette
Published June 16th, 2008 in Culture, Social Networking, Uncategorized and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsSocial networking used to be so simple, a forum to say or discuss what’s on your mind and meet others who are on the same page. However as more people get on the bandwagon — students, moms, bosses, clients, recruiters, HR departments — the rules are changing and like most rules you ignore them at […]
Steampunk’d Social Networking
Published June 1st, 2008 in Culture, Social Networking, Uncategorized and nextNY. 0 CommentsArtist Paul St. George’s steampunk sculpture wryly suggests that using technology to create social networks predates the web, wiki and blog by at least a century.
When it opened to the public two weeks ago, the London Telegraph described St. George’s Telectroscope as “looking like something from the Victorian era” or “a […]
Social Networking Alternative
Published May 31st, 2008 in Culture, Social Networking and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsOK, the video’s been out for a while but here’s another reason social networks are important. Can’t everybody just get along?
Social 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” […]
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 […]
Making Games That Don’t Suck
Published April 10th, 2008 in Dust or Magic, Serious Games, Uncategorized and User Experience. 1 CommentHow could you go wrong choosing William Shakespeare’s plays and characters to be the centerpiece of a massively multiplayer online game?
Just ask Ted Castronova who received a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation to create Arden: The World of William Shakespeare, then discovered genius alone isn’t enough. As Chris Baker reports in WIRED […]
TED: Sharing the Wealth
Published April 7th, 2008 in Educational Technologies and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsTED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) began in 1984 as a conference to bring together people from those three worlds who wouldn’t ordinarily meet. Today it’s become a gathering of the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers in these fields and beyond, challenging them to share their best ideas and insights in 18 minutes. For years […]
Do You Believe in Flying Saucers?
Published March 30th, 2008 in Culture and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsNo? Then I’m sure this post is preaching to the choir, but even so Nicholas Kristof’’s op-ed piece With a Few More Brains… in the Sunday New York Times today is a must-read for anyone concerned about the relentless dumbing-down of political discourse and the dismal state of education in this country — two […]
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