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SPAA 2009 Reaching Your Audience – LAMPicks
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Australia’s leading screen conference, run by SPAA , is in Sydney this week and many multi-platform folk associated with LAMP & AFTRS in the past are in force with a record number of panels and sessions. The heavily featured 360 Media (and by implication Social Media) track sits nicely in the theme of this ...4 days ago -
Truth Be Told
virtualpolitik —
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Since I happen to know that the U.S. government has created military videogames about washing hands to avoid dysentery, this doesnt seem so unlikely to me. Games about learning common nouns and verbs in Arabic, negotiating with the locals, and spotting IEDs in monotonous landscapes are already in the field. Thanks ...1 week ago -
New Review of Lit on Games for Health & PE
Educational Games Research —
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Marina Papastergiou, over at University of Thessaly in Greece, has a nice review of the literature this month in Computers & Education . Here’s the key portion of her abstract that is most intriguing: The overviewed articles suggest that electronic games present many potential benefits as educational tools ...1 week ago -
Invitation to SharpBrains Summit – Technology for Cognitive Health and Performance
SharpBrains —
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We are excited to invite you to the first virtual, global SharpBrains Summit (January 18-20th, 2010). The SharpBrains Summit will feature a “dream team” of over 25 speakers who are leaders in industry and research from 7 countries, to discuss emerging research, tools and best practices for cognitive health ...1 week ago -
AFTRSTalks – LAMP Seminars Now Up on Vimeo
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It is always hard to decide on a good video sharing network for longer format material as YouTube & many others have time and quality limitations. LAMP has put up its videos via iTunes store since 2005 as well as running a JWPlayer on it’s own virtual server. So we also just started an AFTRSTalks channel ...2 weeks ago -
Digital Cowboys: Episode 128
Platform Nation —
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This week we welcome to the show; James Portnow – CCO of Divide By Zero games and accredited game designer. We’re talking about the words ‘Game’ and ‘Gamer’ after an article on Gamasutra by Tynan Syslvester prompted us to ascertain if new words and descriptions could be used for them in the face of an ...3 weeks ago -
CNN on how games are healthy
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Are video games good for your health? – CNN.com . It’s one of those slideshow dealies. Among the anecdotes: Playing games can cure “lazy eye” better than an eye patch Training with Wii Fit and Wii Sports improved balance in Parkinson’s patients Always nice to see more of these studies…3 weeks ago -
VW educators in the UK, look here
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Virtual World Watch has a request for information up — they want to hear from you about how you use virtual worlds in UK higher and further education. The question How are you using virtual worlds (e.g. Second Life, OpenSim, Metaplace, OLIVE, Active Worlds, Playstation Home, Blue Mars, Twinity, Wonderland) in ...3 weeks ago -
NHS endorses Nintendo Wii Fit video game
Positive Technology Journal —
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The Daily Telegraph reports that the Nintendo Wii Fit Plus , which goes on sale this Friday, got the permission to use the NHS’s Change4Life logo in its advertising on television and in shops. From next year, it is possible that the logo will be used on the product itself, an unprecedented partnership between a ...3 weeks ago -
Mastering Multi Platform Content
AFTRS LAMP —
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Australians now spend an average of 16.1 hours on the internet each week, 12.9 hours watching TV, 8.8 hours listening to the radio, 3.7 hours on a mobile phone and 2.8 hours reading newspapers according to The Nielsen Online Internet and Technology Report quoted in The Australian earlier this year. With internet ...3 weeks ago -
FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES CONSOLIDATION
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My deep apologies to the multiple Serious Games communities Im connected with, since Im in the process of consolidating Blogs & Website, Feeds & Tweets, and Social Networks. As of today my Blog SERIOUS GAMES PORTAL no longer exists. FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES , my main Blog, will be gradually ...4 weeks ago -
Beta Launch of 3D Browser-Based Virtual World
Virtual Speak —
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We are excited to announce the beta launch of our first ever 3D browser-based virtual world, Winning in Wireless: Year 1. Initially launched in April of this year as a downloadable application, Winning in Wireless: Year 1 is a pilot program that BTS and Visual Purple embarked on by taking an existing BTS ...4 weeks ago -
Serious Games @ Calculation Nation
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The best of Serious Games that challenge us to play at building a better future Via: Mark Oehlert RT @ iThinkMedia : [Blog] Trust Me: Math Can Be Fun w/Calculation Nation! Calculation Nation is a free, easy to use, mathematics game site, offering Serious Games for most K-12 students. Calculation Nation offers ...4 weeks ago -
#SeriousGames Will RT @google
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The best of Serious Games that challenge us to play at building a better future Via: Official Google Blog - RT @google: Tweets and Updates and Search Google Blog posted a couple of hours ago: 10/21/2009 02:09:00 PM "At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. ...4 weeks ago -
3D Browser Serious Games For Senior Executives
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The best of Serious Games that challenge us to play at building a better future Via: Visual Purple - 3D Browser-Based Virtual World, Winning in Wireless: Year 1 A few months back I highlighted Visual Purple’s launch of the downloadable Serious Game Winning in Wireless: Year 1, on my blog post Serious Games ...4 weeks ago -
Serious Games Presentation @ Barcamp Derry
FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES —
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The best of Serious Games that challenge us to play at building a better future Via: Burkey’s Blog - Slides from Barcamp Derry - The History of (A) Video Games and [B] Serious Games A Barcamp is an informal, free, and participatory conference style event where the content is provided by the ...4 weeks ago -
RezEd podcast
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I was lucky enough to be part of a podcast for Global Kids’ Digital Media Initiative , the RezEd podcast, alongside Daniel Livingstone and Joe Castille, who are two of the educators using Metaplace. It was a great conversation! Check it out here . RezEd Podcast Episode 42 – Metaplace and Forecasting the ...4 weeks ago
