Game 3.0
While WWW is moving towards 2.0, Sony proposes Game 3.0.
http://ps3.gamespy.com/articles/770/770997p1.html
I will surely announce myself 2.0 when I get my terminal degree here :D
Labels: game 3.0
Nintendo secret building
I really enjoy this clip about Nintendo's Kyoto HQ, not only because it shows how games and play have been around in Japan, but also how the lady in the clip interact with the film maker.
It's hilarious when the guy asks "can i take a picture?" and the lady said "no!"
It's like... I like you so I let you look around... but respect the rule!
http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/clip-nintendo-hq-breakin-243509.php
How to Share Your Obituary With Your Online Friends
I used to spend time to ponder what would happen for our generation when we pass away, my concern at that time was email service as it would be gone forever. Will our kids want to know how their mom & dad wrote love letter (email)? My thoughts went on to chat service, what if one day one of our friends just disappear and never to online again. I sure this wikihow entry answers my thought...
How to Share Your Obituary With Your Online FriendsI get interesting tips from this site at times.
Initial finding for SNC in Thailand
After spending some time to better understand the two-year-old Thai SNC,
GotoKnow, I decided to become one of the members in this community. This site is a project funding from The Knowledge Management Institute (
KMI). The team leader, Dr. Jantawan Noiwan, is a professor at
Prince of Songkla University Thailand graduating from the department of Information Systems, University of Maryland. This site is built from scratch as Dr.Noiwan said that she couldn’t find any software that match the requirements.
This site is very unique as it integrates blog and bookmark feature together and heavily focus on knowledge management issue. The site clearly states its objective as a community of learning for public and encourages members to blog tacit knowledge. KMI also has two more sites (with the same structure).
Researchers in Thailand is focusing on researchers and scholars with
The Thailand Research Fund, meaning that once they get the grant, they have to blog their ongoing research. The newest site is
Learners in Thailand. The main reason for this site is because many members start using the site for explicit knowledge (e.g., teachers ask student to submit homework, or create page for their class material).
My focus is at GotoKnow is it focuses on tacit knowledge, I hope to link it with my research interest--content analysis, identity and selves, and CMC. My initial search, as inspired by Jade (
EME 2040 and Facebook), found most of the members include their private information--address, and cell phone. Sorry I didn’t have exact number for this search, but really, most of them put address and cell phone. Is this going to be less problematic since they are adults?
Initially, I will not blog in this site, I’ll try to follow a strategy that
Christopher Sessums has shared with us in class last semester; that is, have a theme for your blog, try connecting with members with the same interests and get to know them. I then will spend months from now commenting people in GotoKnow, I’ll try to make my comment provoking and ask for higher level of thinking, and then start blogging probably next semester.
Thought from our folks: December 5, 2006
Ben –
You did a brilliant job, especially the group activity. It was simple yet cut to the chase. I have been teaching web designing for years and trying to integrate usability issue in the curriculum. All I did was lecturing, and that wasn’t fun for me and I am sure students didn’t really get it much from the class. Your idea of group activity blew my away.
Martin & Joe –
To me, developing the web application is never easy because technology changes all the time and we have to put together hardware and software. For this project that you are working with, I believe the well-structured database is a very good start, your idea of search terms and how you are going to structure the site is a great plan.
Bryan –
We did have conversations about the web designing and standard that available out there. Bryan’s work showed that it’s worth following the standard; your CSS and the design are just awesome. You also have made a valuable comment about W3C and other tutorial sites, I have never thought of that before. I think many of us who start from the scratch must have been troubled by the terms and advance techniques.
Keith –
You did a great job. I know you realized it wasn’t that fun for programming part of the game. The game’s maps are amazing. As Dr.Dawson said, this project has a great potential, put the right man for the right job (yourself as a project manager) and earn a million!
Six words
Engendering
Student-centered
Funding
Pedagogy
GDHQuality time
Netflix connected
After I discontinued netflix account last summer due to the trip back to Thailand, I now decided to re-subscribe and wish to network with you guys. This is probably one of the social networking applications, worth trying!
The insturction goes like this: if you have netflix account, click
here to connect to mine, then wait for the acceptance.
If you don't have the account, please visit
netflix.
Thought from our folks: December 1, 2006
Denise –
What I totally agree with Denise’s presentation is that ‘we cannot teach properly if we don’t know ourselves.’ Needless to say about the diversity in today’s educational setting. If we don’t know who we are, we couldn’t understand others. I’m looking forward to learning more from what you are researching.
Brooks –
Brooks recapped the idea of instructional design (ADDIE) and talked about 2 existing ID models. I do agree with Brook’s conclusion that choosing ID model is not as important as paying attention to ADDIE itself. I like to think of ADDIE as a backbone of all these models.
Michiko –
The Aging theories is so fascinating, well, I’m not looking forward to subscribe the theories though. It’s just that these theories remind us about life; my own experience reaching the new checkbox makes me consider more on generative facet of life. The earlier we realized, the better we can prepare. And yes, it would be easy to feel disconnect to the community on your retirement. This might be the reason that I am not a fan of corporate workplace. Many people think that working in the corporate setting is safer than having your own business or being a freelance. The fact is that they just push the risk to the executive so that they can stay safe, get salary and switch off after work.
Another great point from Michiko’s presentation is using Maslow’s hierarchy of need to explain why Japanese elders are interested in learning the second language, and it’s the first time I hear about ‘blue-eyed grandson.’
