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Looks like Amazon is now paying people to do simple tasks that computers can’t do very well. You can check out the site here. Part of me thinks this is really cool. The internet lets a company connect with people … Continue reading →

I wrote a post several months ago about John C. Dvorak’s article blasting the Creative Commons license. I didn’t know much of Dvorak, but the article made me not like him. Then I started listening to the Twit podcast, and … Continue reading →

Halloween is one of those holidays that holds it’s own, at least for a while. When you’re a kid, you love the holiday because it’s all about the candy. Free candy. Lots and lots of free bag of candy. It’s … Continue reading →

The success of wikipedia has shown us that coherent pieces of text can be written by several users over time. Sure, there are the few cases of vandalism, but 750,000+ articles is sufficient evidence to demonstrate the power of collaborative … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking about games and learning, and can’t help but wonder if patterns aren’t an important part of it all. My last couple of posts were long and dry, but I attempted to look at how games might be … Continue reading →

I found this article to be interesting. Dvorak is basically saying that the media is biased toward Macs because they all use Macs. And new things that come along with Windows are dismissed out of hand. While I’ve been told … Continue reading →

The more I think about my last post, the more I want to change my statement. I think games relate to Jonassen’s problems, but that the more popular games relate to the problems in the center of the spectrum, and … Continue reading →

A few days ago I wrote a bit about PBL and writing. Shelton Brett followed up with a very good question. He asks, “What about Jonassen’s problem types and the effort of designing instructional games? Is there any cross-over between … Continue reading →

So, I mentioned in a previous post how problem-based learning (pbl) works, but I wanted to write just a bit about how I think this applies to creative writing. Jonnason describes several types of problems. Writing falls into the ‘design’ … Continue reading →

A few of these have been popping up, and they are quite clever. You take clips from a movie, and change the ‘theme’. So for example, the wonderful West Side Story becomes a zombie flick. Or The Shining becomes a … Continue reading →