Business & Marketing, Learning Games & Simulations, User Experience Design
What’s old is new again, and I’m not talking about Cracker Jacks. They never went away and so too the “prize” inside, which more often than not was a temporary tattoo (ever the provocateur, the tats were my childhood favorite). The old and new...Educational Technology, Kids Media & Technology, Learning Games & Simulations, User Experience Design
Ntiedo “Nt” Etuk, founder and CEO of Tabula Digita (now DimensionU) talks about the “ah ha” moment he had as a math tutor and the impetus for building a company to develop serious games for learning.Educational Technology, Learning Games & Simulations, Social Media
Do you hear what I hear? After reading Social Networking in Schools on the Huffington Post today, I recognized that nearly every project I’ve worked on over the past year has pointed towards a new round of convergence — a mash-up of social media, mobile...Educational Technology, Learning Games & Simulations, Next Tech
The debate about the use of game mechanics in digital media — lately known as gamification — hardly started before being overtaken by tools, workshops and service providers all too willing to use game techniques to tart up your latest digital...Kids Media & Technology, Learning Games & Simulations
It’s gratifying when your clients and friends do well so I’m happy to pass along the news that Whyville, the subversively educational virtual world for tweens launched in 1999, has partnered with AMD Foundation and PBS to offer game development tools. From...Educational Technology, Kids Media & Technology, Learning Games & Simulations
What a long strange trip it’s been. First, video games were seen as nothing more than a waste of time, then they were said to be a scourge that was turning young, impressionable players into zombified serial killers or worse. More recently, thanks to the work of...