From Jack Schofield on the guardian technology blog

Alternative Reality Gaming White Paper

Guardian Gamesblog reports that German mini-publisher JoWood is issuing the DS game Lifesigns: Hospital Affairs in the UK. Developed by Spike, the team behind the Trauma Centre series, this one’s more of a soap opera-style RPG with players taking on the role of a young doctor, who must roam the wards placating patients and chatting with other staff.

Lifesigns Website

Wired News reports from San Francisco on the third annual Web 2.0 Summit.

Of interest:

• In the Chair - an application that encourages music students
• Instructables – a social networking service where hands-on types display their DIY projects
• Sphere – a new search widget that authors can attach to the end of their blog posts

Celebrating one year of fabulous (and modest) edublogging today – whoopee !

From an article on 3D root canal visualisation using VStudio MAX….”It became obvious that these images could also be used for education,” says Dr. Peters. “The potential for students to assess examples of different kinds of root canal anatomy in three dimensions is significant and does lead to improvements in spatial perception, a very important prerequisite for dentistry in general and endodontics in particular.”

The whole article can be found here

The project team met in Bournemouth during November 2006 to discuss progress. the minutes are available from the Cohehre Website.

View The Minutes

Virgin has been forced into an embarrassing U-turn after a new viral advertising campaign backfired spectacularly….

Source : MediaGuardian

From andy black on the pda jisc mailing list

TiddlyWiki a reusable non-linear personal web notebook

On the SLED digest today news about an article published in the Seattle Times – Scientists say video games can reshape education.

The Federation of American Scientists recently declared that video games (like SL) should to be researched as a possible direction for education in the future. The full report (which I’ve not read) can be seen here