More news on educational games - and conferences

By Tony Bates, on February 8th, 2010

Thanks to Natasha Boskic for this:

Amazon.com has published a list of Bestsellers in Video Games for 2009.

Jamie Madigan published an interesting article on her blog, “Phat Loot and Neurotransmitters in World of Warcraft”,  about psychological effects of games, using World of Warcraft as an example. Her whole blog is an attempt to understand why we [...]

February 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Bibliography, Featured, Technology, games, simulations, animations and games | Leave a comment

Kindle and the Blind

By Tony Bates, on July 8th, 2009

‘The National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind are suing Arizona State University for its use of the Amazon Kindle to distribute electronic textbooks to students, saying the device cannot be used by blind students.’ Chronicle of Higher Education (July 2)

The two articles below raise some very interesting [...]

July 8th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Bibliography, Featured, Strategies, planning and management, Teaching and learning, Technology, access, disabilities, e-books, planning, policies and management - institutional, selection of media and technologies, students | Leave a comment