by Julie Dirksen
Julie Dirksen Hey folks, Last June I presented at the very first Learning and Entertainment Evolution Forum (LEEF) in Harrisburg, PA. The forum was put on by the fabulous folks at the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. Can’t say enough good things about them — they are really trying to do it right. Currently the call … Read more
A number of years ago I read Chaos by James Gleick, and afterwards couldn’t help but see fractals everywhere. Now, I’ve been interested in the application of games in learning environments for years — specifically the fundamentals of game design (points, leveling, challenge, achievements, collecting, etc.), and lately I’ve been seeing game thinking everywhere I look, … Read more
I’ve been reading The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell (which is wonderful), and there was a passage about imagination that I thought was really remarkable: Imagination puts the player into the game by putting the game into the player. You might think, when I talk about the power of … Read more
So, the other day I got asked if it was okay to make a Spanish version of the the first ID Webcomic. If you are curious, here it is: How cool is that!
Bob Sutton (author of the excellent Hard Facts on evidence-based management, and other books) has had a few great posts recently on intuition, self-knowledge and cognitive bias (among other things): In Flawed Self-Evaluations he talks about people’s tendencies to overestimate their own knowledge or skill, and that the less they know about an area, the more … Read more
Need a Halloween costume in less than 5 minutes? Go as a Whiteboard! Follow the instructions below: Get a white t-shirt and markers Draw stuff like this on the t-shirt Put it on Bonus step: Leave the back blank, take markers with you, and make it interactive. Happy Halloween, folks.