Essays on gaming
The Video Game Revolution web site contains a lot of info on the history and development of video games. It’s more aimed at those with a interest in games rather than educational games, but the section on the impact of…
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Monthly Archive: November 2007
Do I need a second life?
I was down in London yesterday giving a talk at the Heads of E-Learning Forum meeting on virtual worlds. There were also a couple of interesting presentations on Second Life from Steve Bennett from Hertfordshire University and Fiona Littleton from…
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Games for girls
A big thank you to Jane and Ade for my top birthday gift of the Battleshops game. It’s just like battleships but made acceptable for the tender female mind by basing it around a theme of shopping rather than blowing…
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I love robots
Okay, so I’m going to be hard-pushed to link this one to education, but here’s a cool robot building game. Perhaps it will come in useful when I need to get into training for taking over the world.
Curious?
This is a point-and-click game created by Salford University, I think as a student recruitment tool. It’s very much in the style of the wonderful Samorost and quite as bizarre. I am stuck on level two. Thanks to Katie Piatt…
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Mind games
I’ve recently had a few sessions with an excellent hypnotist, who has incidentally got me interested in hypnotism and neuro-linguistic programming and their potential (if any) for education, game-based learning and research. I started off extremely sceptical about NLP (basically…
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