I’m attending my last panel of the day-Can Wii learn?-Wiimotes in e-learning and I just wanted to state two things: 1. Not a single cell phone has gone off during a panel I’ve been in today and I have been super impressed. Then BAM, one just went off, and of course the owner couldn’t find […]
The future of Internet radio?! Is it the same ol’ same ol’? Or are we living in the long-Tail? KCRW Pandora Radio Rhapsody Shuffle Or simply the best damn radio station in the land…click here These Internet radio guys argue about radio as much as terrestrial radio people do. The online music market is so […]
Quarterlife: Never seen it, have no idea what it’s about. But, it made history and that’s why I’m here. Here’s the story of a man named Marshall Herskovitz who, among other things, changed the flow of media content. Instead of the typical “go to the web to supplement TV content,” Herskovitz moved his show from […]
The Statesman reporter who got Sarah Lacy’s post-interview tantrum showed up at my latest panel. He shot that with his own handheld camera. Did the editing on the spot. Re-edited after posting to youtube because Lacy dropped an f-bomb. Then re-posted the whole thing to Austin360 from his own youtube spot. Johnny on the Spot […]
Hi All, I’m listening and blogging so please excuse my choppiness.————————————————————— The panel opened with a brief description of the Wiimote and its components. They moved on to talk about the 4 e-educator’s challenges/needs:attentionmotivationparticipationretention The panelists discussed that in a good learning game design, those 4 behaviors are not difficult to achieve. Most game designers […]
Here’s my teaser for a longer post on McGonigal. She’s passionate about the subject of games, but I have to admit that the idea of turning self-actualization over to an outside designer as opposed to taking direct action for my own self-actualization freaks me out. Something very 1984 about it no matter how benevolent you […]
After the Mexican Manifesto, I attended the panel MASH Notes: A Military Surgeon’s Videoblog from Iraq. A United States Navy trauma surgeon shares his experience caring for combat casualties in Ramadi, Iraq during a seven month stretch of the Iraq War. He describes the challenges in caring for critically wounded American troops, Iraqi civilians and […]