Newest EMDTMS team member, Chris, has been bugging me since we first met to pitch in together so that we can get a copy of the much hyped Will Wright game, “Spore“ together. Watching the embedded DL.TV video below makes me all the more anxious to get a copy (especially the part in the end [...]
Geek Mindmap
August 30, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Finding Center
August 29, 2008 By 1 Comment
I uploaded my first modules for my course this afternoon. Sigh. Needless to say, the crush to get the course up and running has been getting heavier and heavier over the past weeks day-by-day. Adding insult to injury, over the past week I got a new 320GB hard drive just dying to be installed into [...]
Experimenting with Second Life in Education
August 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Just “went” to a “screening” in Second Life of video projects created by Full Sail students. I’m intrigued by the idea of hanging around and chatting with friends and students in the virtual space and amused at how one of my my WoW loving coworkers belittles the experience. This was the first time I’d been [...]
Dissidents
July 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
When I read about the techniques Chinese bloggers were using to get the word out, I was reminded of my middle school students dying to listen to their music or get to their myspace page from behind the district’s firewall. District official’s no doubt would bristle at the analogy, but I’m sure that the Chinese [...]
D&D Characters Playing D&D
June 25, 2008 By 1 Comment
I’m posting the following video in honor of my own video debut today playing a D&D player for fellow Full Sail course director, Dan. I can only pray that Jonathan, Full Sail videographer/editor, saves us from looking entirely as stupid as we felt as we stumbled over our lines and swallowed our diction (I’m speaking [...]
iPhone SDK Will Be a Game Changer… Ha!
March 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I was very jazzed watching the twitter feeds during Steve Job’s iPhone SDK keynote, but was frustrated that I had to wait until I got home at the end of the day to watch the video (then ran into some weird stream mojo on my mac-mini). Ack. Not being there frustrations aside, the third-party apps [...]
Computer Games on a TV look like Crap & Why Kids Love ‘em Anyway
January 13, 2008 By Leave a Comment
K, I can troubleshoot the hell out of an lab-full of aging CRT iMacs with 35 energetic 12-year and 13-year olds pounding these relics from the late 90s into submission. But some things get past me. I mean, over Christmas break when I finally got around to seeing if I could get some of my [...]
What Part of the Brain R We Teaching 2?
December 8, 2007 By Leave a Comment
At the KLCS hosted “Day of Discovery,” Hall Davidson keynote this morning questioned how students today are different from precious generations. Number one was whether there differences. According to Davidson the Ravin scores have been climbing substantially while written comprehension have remained relatively flat. This means that they are rapid problem solvers who are use [...]
