Education
Education and friendship
As I was coming up to my final exam of my masters my tutor said something that really hit me hard. On the subject of us all getting jobs he said something along the lines of: Most students find being Read more…
Technology
What does Twitch have that edX doesn’t?
This week I have logged in to two different platforms in the hope of learning something new. Out of these two platforms the first pone I logged on to was called edX. It is an online platform and I was Read more…
Education
Confidence and Creativity
There is a student that sits at the back of our class, he sits slouched with his legs wide open, legs dangling, slouched back and cap backwards; he likes to shout over whatever the tutor says, Enfield fans might call Read more…
Computer Games
Ways to get the brain going
When I feel there is a something to think about I like to play a game and today, oddly enough ,I wanted to think about how playing games helped me to think. Now that I am fresh out of match Read more…
Computer Games
The technology is brilliant, but..
I am sure that I am not the only person working in educational technology to see what I think is a brilliant technology fail, something that does something you’ve never seen before or fundamentally changes how you see the world. Read more…
Playing
Create your own Dark Room text adventure
A Dark Room is a simple text based adventure game written in HTML 5 that is currently taking the world, or at least Reddit, by storm. I like the idea of the game, its not fancy looking and uses technologies Read more…
Computer Games
Indie Developers: Back to the 80s
There is often talk from those who grew up in 80s UK kids about the good old days of gaming before the large development houses and multimillion pound projects. I was born in 1984 so perhaps I was a little Read more…
Data Analytics
What is Learning Analytics?
Our research department is currently housing a student from a different instition who is interested in mobile learning. She has just finished her doctorate in a Spanish university and is about to head home to China. During a welcome meeting Read more…
General Chatter
9 out of 10 blog posts
In a previous life a work colleague worked in the games industry for a successful publisher. Brits will remember the early C64 budget games of the 80s, but this particular publisher was one of the first ones to capitalise on Read more…
General Chatter
Out with the Twitter stream, in with the Youtube stream
This website is a year old today, wow! I’ve never kept anything going that long before, I’m impressed with myself. Although saying that, while this installation is only a year old some of the content on here is older since as at Read more…
