Archive forDecember, 2007

Dec

19

I Am Legend Vs Media Zoo

December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The makers of I Am Legend have come up with a terrific viral marketing campaign for Will Smith’s new film utilising a multiplayer first person shooter in Second Life which proved much more attractive to me than the educational launch of Media Zoo which I was planning on visiting yesterday evening. Strolling around the [...]

Dec

12

Second Life in 3600 seconds

December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Attended the session in Second Life today given by Eduserv’s Andy Powell to staff at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology, Bristol as part of their staff development week – useful primer once I managed to get the audio working – here are the slides (from an older version of the presentation)
SL in 3600 [...]

Dec

7

YouTube and information on immunization

December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

University of Toronto researchers have uncovered widespread misinformation in videos on YouTube related to vaccination and immunization….. an extract from the Journal of the American Medical Association is available online
Sources : Memex and Slashdot

Dec

7

Oblique Strategies

December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

What a fantastic concept for those moments of dilemma…..
“These cards evolved from our separate observations on the principles underlying what we were doing. Sometimes they were recognized in retrospect (intellect catching up with intuition), sometimes they were identified as they were happening, sometimes they were formulated. They can be used as a pack (a set [...]