Archive for March, 2007

Linden Labs In the UK

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Second Life developer Linden Lab is setting up a development team in the UK and has chosen coastal city Brighton for the location of its new office.

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Source : Develop

Second Life Online Resources

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Mark Pepper’s online bibliography is constantly evolving and reflects a range of interesting, relevant, and popular sites concerning education in Second Life…..

Source : SRL Digest

Human Navigation via Video Game

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Using a video game featuring a yellow taxi, virtual city and human players with electrodes embedded in their memory banks, neuroscientists at UCLA and Brandeis University have discovered how three types of brain cells interact to help people navigate the real world….

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Source : Games for health mailing list

Can a Handheld Gaming Device Be Used As An Effective Assistive Technology Tool?

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

My TechDis HEAT scheme project report has now been published. The project aimed to investigate the use of the Nintendo DS and Brain Training package as a study support tool to assist students requiring help with numeracy skills during the autumn term of 2006. The outcomes were very interesting and it is hoped to continue this project in a wider context seeking the top up kit requested in our original bid to investigate further educational uses of the Nintendo DS Lite in the near future….

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Emerging technologies for learning

Monday, March 26th, 2007

BECTA have just published Emerging technologies for learning highlighting some of the possibilities that are developing and the potential for technology to transform ways of working, learning and interacting over the next three to five years…

Learning Spaces

Monday, March 26th, 2007

JISC infoNet has announced the launch of its newest infoKit ‘Planning and Designing Technology-Rich Learning Spaces’…..

Review: Drink: Under the Influence

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

A review for Edina - Film & Sound Online on Drink: under The Influence. EDINA, based at Edinburgh University Data Library, is a JISC-funded national datacentre. It offers the UK tertiary education and research community networked access to a library of data, information and research resources.

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