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A while ago I was involved in a shameless promotion of Adobe. It's got out, people have seen it so I suppose it's an introduction to me. Well - me in work mode, kind of.

Take a look here and try not to laugh too much!

:)

Note: this entry was originally submitted to the MsC in E-learning 'Game Design' Module in November 2007 to Hamish MacCleod (tutor) as a mid-term paper.

This review will examine the game 'Battlefield 2' with a view towards an educational adaptation for Police training - an adaptation which seeks…

So when I say I'm going to "dive in" it always strikes me as funny. But, that I am.

Diving in, that is. I've been off doing other things - in over my head but loving swimming in the deep end for a while.

I've got a nut I'm trying to crack. Before I "dive in" and post a question, I think I will be a good netizen and see if there's something already out there in our little community.

Topic: Participation.

Another place to see my where my thoughts are headed:…

I'm still at a loss for words.

But I'll have a go at trying to understand what has been happening between what is preached and what is actually done.


Recently, I completed my studies with a certain Chartered Institute, got good grades across all the required disciplines and generally performed pretty well.

I figured that getting a recognised 'professional' status in learning would…

I haven't followed kindergarten pedagogy since I left Mrs. Hemmon's classroom way back when in '71. From what I remember, the best I can say was that kindergarten was a 'cocoon' -- a little sheltered spot, an island in the larger school. Fast forward to last week when my wife and I saw our 4 year old off to public junior kindergarten. A few days before we met with the kindergarten teacher and I realized that kindergarten sure has changed in the last 35 years. Monthly outings to museums. Conce…

Well, he finally arrived! I'm a new Dad! :)

Cameron Henry Jones arrived on the 27th August at 11:22. Healthy, happy and bouncy! If you're interested, check out www.thejonesadventure.co.uk for pictures.

Once paternity leave is over and things have settled down, I'll be back to annoying you all with banal and ill thought out comments but I did think it would be nice to share the news :)

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For those of you interested in this stuff...

I downloaded the trial in the hope that Cap 3 finally delivers what Cap 2 promised. As you'll know, Cap 2 was buggy and very, very able to corrupt it's own files without trying (especially on Vista).

So Cap 3. Well, so far so good with a couple of minor niggles. I've used it extensively for 2 days so this isn't a complete review but hopefully I'll cover the main points.

• Slidelets - basically a slide within a slide. These
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Nice article on Wired about a firm who is helping organizations build training simulations using a "Wii-mote" in Second Life.

A few examples were cited:

• a company interested in training workers for its power plants
• a manufacturer of medical devices
• pest-control firm Orkin, who is hoping "...to create training simulations, which might involve inspecti
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Thanks for your comments and suggestions on community building over the weeks. I think it's about time I updated you on progress.

None.

Well, certainly not in the way I wanted. The problems were manyfold but the biggest stopper was the technology. Now I know INATT (see Jay's latest Forum post) but in this case it was. Even the core I'd identified struggled to post and change stuff. Considering we're all at best in different offices this is an issue.

So a new a…

People that have been reading my Learning Conversations blog for a while will know that I'm, very slowly, working through a Masters Degree in elearning.

In this final year I'm focusing on my Dissertation, in which I'm doing some research to find out "the salient characteristics of those people or organisations whose websites form the hubs within a learning network".

I need as many people as possible, who…

You may have seen that I am running a new feature on my website of e-learning professionals’ Top 10 Tools. They might be those that they use for their own personal learning or working and/or for creating e-learning.

Jay Cross kicked it off a couple of weeks and sinc…

I'm a happy sausage - I've not being involved in this area for long, and have only been blogging about a month, but I had a lovely suprise today just after I'd posted on Enterprise 2.0, noting that the emphasis on the functionality and potential of Web 2.0 applications is overshadowing the human element of collaborative software use. The post is called Enterprise 2.0, same problem, different p…

Clive Shepherd writes here in a post about 'neuromyths' where pop psychology with no reliable scientific basis still dominate the learning field. In particular, the observations of the learning styles neuromyth got me back on my current hobby horse.

I've been looking at how pervasive this theory has become. Wh…

I try to use examples of organisations using web 2.0 tools whenever I can to emphasise that while our immediate competitors may not be taking advantage of these methods for learning, other organisations are, and it's always a good idea to be ahead of the wave.

So I seized upon an example from Seb Schmoller's Fortnightly Mailing where Mark Oehlert had written about the success of using blogs and wikis at…

Hi and thank you Jay for inviting me as a 'friend'. I look forward to some great 'discussions and perhaps debates but right at the moment I am up to my neck in the swamp with the alligators on a superb project, so I will be back later.

Have a good day!
Lee

The perception of social networking seems to be a dichotomy.

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Something I’ve come up against in my research into the usefulness of blogging for knowledge sharing and learning – the issue of anonymity.

To protect participants in terms of my research, all the members of the community taking part are anyonomised. They appear to like…

Since my comment disapearred at Robert Scobles blog. Update: Seems it came back. I will try have the discussion here instead. Robert has a Linkblog. It is a feed from Google reader where he publish several blogs RSS-feeds. I really wonder if th…

First thing to say: this is my first EVER blog post so bear with me.

Ok, so you know I'm trying to start a learning community where I work. The approach I'm taking is very informal and slow. Thanks to everyone that gave great advice and I've used that which seemed most appropriate to my situation.

Lessons learnt so far: If it isn't really easy to do, people won't do it. Ok, stating the absolute obvious but its really struck me. Several people have come to me with comments like "…

This story was on page 3 of The Times in the UK yesterday.

Couldn't help but think that £440 ($800) was an extortionate price for an iPod, but either way, we will certainly have our work cut out to convince areas of industry that MMOGs and 'serious games' have a place at work while mainstream press reports attempts to evolve learning in a meaningful way, as "wacky".

I’ve got to say, I was so mad I threw my shoes at the television.

The BBC programme, "Whistleblower" was the receive…