Category Archives: interaction

Cathy Moore – Dump the drone (in eLearning)

Posted on 3 September, 2012 by colsim

While this isn’t specifically game related, Cathy Moore is one of my favourite eLearning gurus – she always provides highly practical and very useful suggestions for designing more accessible and eLearning content with a heavy learner focus. This Slideshare presentation … Continue reading →

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Creating the First Person Learner: Educational Applications of the First Person Shooter game genre (Me, 2008)

Posted on 27 June, 2008 by colsim

Creating the First Person Learner: Educational Applications of the First Person Shooter game genre. Abstract Many students’ initial experiences of Vocational Education and Training (VET) involve spending large amounts of time methodically developing foundation skills and knowledge in their chosen … Continue reading →

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Further thoughts on : Expositur project (Fuchs and Eckermann)

Posted on 25 May, 2008 by colsim

Fuchs, M. (2001) Expositur – A Virtual Knowledge Space (Theory). Retrieved May 25, 2008 from Syl.Eckermann website http://syl-eckermann.net/expositur/theory.html I came across some additional information written by Mathias Fuchs about this project that raised a few more ideas worth quickly sharing. … Continue reading →

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Guitar Rising – the line between games and learning tools blurs a little more

Posted on 11 February, 2008 by colsim

I’ve mentioned games using Guitar styled interfaces before – Fret Nice being one example and the entirely awesome Guitar Hero series of course being another. Guitar Rising looks like it may well take this a step further with PC based … Continue reading →

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Exploring the CEE – a game design document

Posted on 4 January, 2008 by colsim

Well, it’s the beginnings of one anyways – I’ve gotten a little stuck. I’ve been working on a game to be used as an orientation to the services of our team – currently known as the Flexible Learning Solutions team. … Continue reading →

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New games and new interactivity

Posted on 4 December, 2007 by colsim

(My apologies in advance for the formatting of this post – I’ve been trying to fix it for a couple of hours now but Edublogs is being stupid and not doing what it’s told) The 10th Annual Independent Games Festival … Continue reading →

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