Exploring the importance of lifelong play
Exploring the importance of lifelong play
Yes, I’ve been painfully rubbish at maintaining this blog in recent months. Well that’s all going to change now. We’ve recently launched a new Masters Programme in Research with blogging as a core element. As we’ve been talking about the…
A couple of references that I’ve come across in the last couple of days. Carla Casilli, who is the project lead for Mozilla’s Web Literacies and Webmaker Badges, has a great blog, which focuses at length on badge system design. Antin…
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the use of badges as a way for learners to gain recognition for their achievements, because they’ve come up on a couple of projects I’m working on. While, in principle, I’m very much…
The Making Games in Collaboration for Learning (MAGICAL) project, in which we’re a partner, has just released an updated version of its list of game-making environments (pdf). It contains information about nearly forty different game-building tools, classified by cost, game-type,…
Well it’s another year over, and a new one just begun. Time for resolutions (blog more regularly, exercise more, eat less cake) and reflections. I thought that I’d start the new year with some thoughts about the five most memorable…
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be invited to Tampere to act as an opponent in a doctoral defence. Coming from the UK, where a PhD viva involves being asked difficult questions for a hour (if…