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...
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...
by liam | Feb 9, 2008 | literacy, media
Y! Live, Yahoo’s new streaming video service, launched last night and thanks to my resident early adopter, I was there to watch it all unfold. As I watched hundreds of people from around the world broadcast their own live video streams and chat to each other, I...
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,...
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...