Teaching
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009This morning Sarah Robbins (@intellagirl) points in her tweets at an article about the impending demise of universities as we know them written by Don Tapscott. This is a subject that interests me because initiatives like MIT’s OpenCourseWare cannot not have some sort of impact on the way teaching is done at the university level. […]
Squeak
Thursday, March 27th, 2008So I’m looking at Alan Kay’s TED talk this morning, and at one point he starts playing with what looks like a paint program. He draws a very simple car, then plugs some numbers into a menu, and the car starts driving around. Then he draws a circle that he can turn, plugs the numbers […]
Teaching science in Second Life
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Here’s an interesting use of Second Life: give science class labs in the virtual world. It makes it possible to reproduce studies that would be difficult to hold in class.
On the other hand, I don’t believe we should export all teaching labs to the virtual world. There’s something about actually manipulating the materials yourself that […]
Papers on collaborative learning environments
Friday, January 18th, 2008A couple of papers on collaborative learning environments that should be of interest:
Analyzing place metaphors in 3D educational collaborative virtual environments, by Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland, printed in Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 24, issue 2, March 2008, pp. 185-204.
In the recent years, the usage of three dimensional (3D) collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) for educational purposes has […]
Learning foreign languages
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007Found two web sites aimed at learning a foreign language:
LiveMocha, a social network web site. Appears to mix self-learning lessons with sessions with tutors and native speakers (I guess that’s where the social networking comes in).
Mango Beta, a web-based language learning course.
At present, both are free, though I imagine that that might change at some […]
Training in SL
Friday, July 27th, 2007An interesting article in Wired on how Dr. David Stone is building simulations in Second Life for training, using the Wiimote to help make interactions feel more realistic.
IMD 4004: User Interface presentation
Monday, March 12th, 2007I tried uploading the presentation I did last Friday on user interfaces for this course to the course’s web site. PowerPoint lets you convert a presentation into an HTML version, but I struggled with it all morning and it still doesn’t seem to work online. So I ended up putting a link to the original […]
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