Heading to Learning Solutions?
I’m off to Learning Solutions next week! Anybody else who is going wanna connect for drinks and super nerdy conversations about educational gaming or instructional design? Let me know!
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Why Feedback in Games is Different
I did a short guest post on the blog of the LEEF Conference on why game feedback is different from feedback in learning. You can see it here: http://leefblog.com/2010/03/learning-games-and-sims-all-about-the-feedback/ The LEEF (Learning and Entertainment Evolution Forum) Conference is shaping up to be pretty interesting, too: http://www.harrisburgu.edu/LEEF2010/index.php
Gameify the Future
There are about three different planned blog posts that I won’t need to write because you can just watch this video instead*. Jesse Schell** talks about the way that games will interact with the real world and how that can change our behavior [about 30 min, but riveting]. So much potential here (good and bad). … Read more
BJ Fogg on Simplicity
Is it weird to admit I have a huge professional crush on BJ Fogg? [vimeo vimeo.com/2094487] (via http://johnnyholland.org/)
Why are people so dumb? (Cognitive Biases)
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
Nerdiest Halloween Costume Ever?
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.