Hey everyone in VM606 who may be reading this. I’ll be updating the blog on my final project site from here on, so you can go check that out and comment on the progress. The working title is “Let’s Go For A Walk” (just to fill the title space) – I wrote about the beginnings [...]

In recent months (at some point recently, I’m not sure when), YouTube added an annotation feature to their video uploads, which allows users to add notes and links in their videos. I was initially intrigued by this as a good marketing tool and a way to make a video not dated (e.g. a promotional video [...]

The idea of teaching through fun is something an old traditionalist high school teacher might cringe at, but when we look at out-of-the-classroom examples, it’s clear that fun is a huge part of how we learn. Along with fun, we learn through challenge, and a lot of times the type of challenge we learn from [...]

As I was exploring the alternate reality game, EVOKE, I happened upon its creator’s web site. Jane McGonigal is an accomplished game designer, and as you might guess by the high-flying nature of EVOKE, she’s got quite lofty goals. “I’m trying to make sure that a game developer wins a Nobel Prize by the year [...]