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Educational gaming getting press

It’s nice to see this article mention the work that Kurt Squire is doing at UW-Madison. Kurt gave an exciting afternoon keynote at last year’s COTF .
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Horizon Report 20005 is out

By the New Media Consortium and National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NMC and NLII). Side note: you’ll notice that the NLII just had their annual conference and Educause did podcasts to cover it (see previous entry ). The report is here . Some highlights include ….
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Using the Sims to teach french?

An article talks about adapting the SimsOnline to include language. Sounds like a virtual cultural immersion experience (much cheaper than a semester in Paris!)
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Game Theory course materials!

Oh boy, MIT’s OpenCourseWare (a favorite of mine) has a course on Game Theory for Managers. I was a little over-excited at first thinking it was more like educational gaming rather than game theory which learns towards the mathematical. But I always like to plug OpenCourseWare!
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Great edublog examples

I just read about 2 examples of using blogs in classes . One involves writing and one involves documenting an immersive experience….
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