Not playing video games but taking some of the processes involved in gaming and using them in education. A recent video I did for TeachMeet Sunderland.
“Gaming” Education 2 – Consider bringing the process of the culture of gaming into education
November 29, 2010
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What next for BETT and TeachMeet – beyond the lunatic fringe – why so serious?
January 17, 2010
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Excerpt: This year I overhead a comment to this effect – “Looking around on the stands and at Open Source, TeachMeet etc. it seems people are being regarded far less as the ‘lunatic fringe’ and becoming more accepted.” I often think that when you talk about new ideas and concepts applied to education, many people look at you with the same disdain they might display on finding out that you have told them their favourite uncle is a cross-dresser. “Yes dear – we know they do it but we don’t talk about that…” That a similar attitude seems to persist for TeachMeet seems obvious…
BETT 2010 – halfway there…
January 15, 2010
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Excerpt: I have had an amazing BETT 2010 so far. Most of my time has been spent at the Open Source Cafe and on the MirandaMod stands streaming video out in real time and making small vox pop videos like this : But the most interesting part of the BETT2010 show so far was the AmplifiED event held on the Thursday night – about 20 people of the projected 60 turned up but the evening was a fantastic success. As usual my Mac is chuntering away in the background encoding video of all the sessions but in the meantime before I go…
BETT 2010 – a busy time this week
January 11, 2010
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Last year's MirandaMod discussions at BETT
[/caption] Every year I have spent less and less time walking around the stands at BETT and devoted more and more time to networking and building video and audio archive resources around people and groups met during the show. For me the exhibition is about communities of practice – renewal of contact with a wide and growing Twitter tribe in education and general catching up what people are doing in all the areas of techEd around the country. This year is no exception and I’ll be covering more events than ever using video, armed…
