Tweet At a Play Date at Cornell today we discussed and demonstrated a range of issues to do with virtual worlds, computer games and educational technology. A creative and relaxed atmosphere and a really interesting group of people. Margaret Corbit … Continue reading
Tweet Therese is working on a case study with students using Traveler for language education. When I walked passed the lab this evening she was busy doing field study work. She was employing two “cameras” (avatars) in the world at … Continue reading
Tweet Today HUMlab artist in residence Linda Bergkvist taught a three-hour course on Photoshop. Not only is Linda a great teacher, illustrator and artist (check her lip tutorial out) but she is also really into computer games and today, after … Continue reading
Tweet Later this semester we will host a symposium on language learning and technology. It will mainly be national but we will also have several international participants (Nordic, European and American). We are working on the program right now and … Continue reading
Tweet AUTHOR: Bryan Alexander A blog post entitled ” The death of everything: How emerging technologies change ways of knowing and being” draws our attention to the fairly murderous rhetoric sometimes attached to new media. “Corporate media giants are “killing” … Continue reading
Tweet We are very happy to have Bryan Alexander guest blog, and we are looking forward to another couple of blog entries until his guest blogging period is over (officially on Feb 20). Two things related to this: 1. Just … Continue reading
Tweet Today there’s an article in one of the big Swedish newspapers, Dagens Nyheter, entitled “World Wide Suicide” (for a linguist like me, the reason why the title of this Swedish article is in English would be an interesting issue … Continue reading
