education | Liam O'Donnell

UK schools teach literacy via virtual world

by liam | Feb 13, 2008 | education, gaming, literacy, media, virtual worlds

This is unbelievably cool and exactly the kind of educational potential I see in virtual worlds for kids [via Computer Weekly]: Schools in Barnsley are using virtual world software to teach children writing and comprehension skills. The borough council has implemented...

Spore’s teaching potential

by liam | Feb 13, 2008 | education, gaming, literacy, media

Like millions of other gamers around the planet, I am totally excited for the release of Will Wright’s new life-building game Spore. Up until this morning, I just thought of it as being a cool new sim to mess around with, but after reading a tweet from...

MinyanLand to sell free-market gospel to kids

by liam | Feb 6, 2008 | education, gaming, literacy, media, virtual worlds

In the wake of the sub-prime mortgage disasters in the US, the crashing of stock markets around the world, and the already upon us, I mean, approaching recession, it’s refreshing to know that those kooky free market, pull yourself up from your bootstraps,...

On my way to OLA

by liam | Jan 31, 2008 | appearances, comics, education, literacy

[from main page] The librarians are coming! The librarians are coming! And I’m going to meet them. On Friday anyway. At the OLA Super Conference. Say around 2 pm? The Orca booth sound good? Great! See you there. Play your cards right and you could walk away with...

Tweeting at Educon

by liam | Jan 30, 2008 | education

My virtual visit to the EduCon 2.0 conference in Pennsylvania wrapped up on Sunday afternoon and I was left with a great feeling of excitement about what lies ahead for education and technology. I also left with a new appreciation for that twitch-happy communication...