{"id":104,"date":"2008-07-24T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T09:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=104"},"modified":"2008-07-24T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T09:26:10","slug":"this-week-i-have-mostly-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/this-week-i-have-mostly-been\/","title":{"rendered":"This week I have mostly been&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realised this morning that I haven&#8217;t blogged for a while now, and there&#8217;s an awful lot of things sitting in my &#8216;must write about&#8217; list, so I guess this post will be a bit of a brain-dump to clear the backlog.<\/p>\n<p>Been out and about the last couple of weeks, attended an event on v-government at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriousgames.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Serious Games Institute<\/a>, had a really interesting day, met some great people, and they gave us cocktails at the end. What&#8217;s not to like? Then to the <a href=\"http:\/\/jif08.jiscinvolve.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JISC Innovation Forum<\/a>, which I also found really useful (two engaging events in two weeks &#8211; that has to be some sort of record?). I gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/jif08.jiscinvolve.org\/2008\/07\/16\/session-3-bridging-the-gap\/\" target=\"_blank\">short talk on our project<\/a>, as part of a symposium, which was quite bizarre as it was in a session on the student experience, but the audience were nice and didn&#8217;t ask too many scary questions.<\/p>\n<p>In between sitting on trains, I&#8217;ve been playing with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lively.com\/\">Google Lively<\/a> (but so far can&#8217;t seem to get it to work properly &#8211; don&#8217;t really feel like I&#8217;m missing out), considered the benefits of reading the minds of insects (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/games\/archives\/2008\/07\/15\/really_rather_wild_innovations_playing_games_with_your_mind.html\" target=\"_blank\">anything&#8217;s possible<\/a>) and wishing I&#8217;d gone to the <a href=\"http:\/\/avantgame.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/hide-and-seek-08-rules-me-and-why-real.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hide and Seek festival<\/a>. I have also finally succumbed to the call of <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nicwhitton\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realised this morning that I haven&#8217;t blogged for a while now, and there&#8217;s an awful lot of things sitting in my &#8216;must write about&#8217; list, so I guess this post will be a bit of a brain-dump to clear&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/this-week-i-have-mostly-been\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,20,3],"tags":[65,66,64],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-resources","category-thoughts","tag-jisc","tag-lively","tag-serious-games-institute"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-1G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}