In an earlier discussion, I chatted with one of my classmates about creating computer games designed to assist in teaching. In Eliane Alhadeff's blog, she discusses immersive education. Talking about Boston College's program that enables students to get the feeling of "being there" through open discussion forums and simulations. In her blog she shares how games allow us to learn in the real world and apply what we are learning (or test it) in a virtual world complete with avitar representations of the individual playing the game. This is a brand new blog (posted yesterday) I am curious to see what conversations stem from it.
http://elianealhadeff.blogspot.com/2008/01/when-serious-games-meet-immersive_26.html
Joyce Valenza gets a great conversation flowing with her blog "Virtual teaching grows effective". In her post, she introduce's New Zealand's ATS (Affective Tutoring System) which uses an avitar of a woman who conducts the tutoring. I would love to see something like this, here. In the meantime jump on the discussion by connecting with her blog at http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1590018159.html?nid=3714.
My favorite blog that I found sparked a great discussion about synchornous learning and the value of it. This videoconferencing community posted a blog that has already had 7 posts. There is a great discussion going about whether distance learning is successful and if it is the route that education is taking. See this for yourself at:
http://bcisdvcs.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/is-synchronous-distance-learning-worth-the-trouble/
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Here are 3 more blogs that I recommend:
Because I am looking to add a SmartBoard to my classroom and integrate it into my teaching style, I want to learn all that I can about this new technology. What better source than "Teachers who love smartboards" http://www.smartboards.typepad.com/. Next check out the perspective of an engineer turned teacher at http://learnmegood2.blogspot.com/. Finally, learn lots of ways to get the students hands-on into their own learning (appeal to kinesthetic learners) with ideas from http://craft-idea.blogspot.com/.
I have developed an intense interest in the "gaming " side of education. All 3 of the blogs you listed have very interesting information. I have added all 3 to my Bloglines account.
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