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Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
IF, Gathering Steam
This week I have spent most of my free-time in the evenings reading Aaron Reed’s ‘Creating Interactive Fiction with INFORM7.’ You only have to review Aaron’s online profile and contribution to INFORM6/7 to know that he had a real passion …
SLS with our Support Team
I would like to thanks the Learning Support team who are helping me introduce our students to SLS and Karaoke Party to help develop their reading and language skills. In particular, I would like to Debbie Wesson who has been …
IFs
Having only played Zork, I wanted another adventure to explore, to confirm that IFs had mileage. The Directory of IFs presented a plethora of opportunities and an active IF community. To play an IF, you will mainly need an “interpreter” …
Interactive Fiction so much sexier than…
Let’s face it, ‘Interactive Fiction’ sounds so much sexier than… text based adventures. Interactive fiction, often abbreviated as IF, describes simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment, not that dissimilar to the …
Gradebooks and Gamification
For those of you that share my advocacy for Moodle, you may not share my advocacy for Moodle’s gradebook. I know its hard to get into, but its really worth your time. Now, add to the mix, a professional interest …
Am I Too Sensitive?
Ewan McIntosh posted his reflections on a Rupert Murdoch speech given to delivered to senior government officials from around the world this May. An aggressive ‘pitch’ in which Murdoch states that….. Everywhere we turn, digital advances are making workers more …
Learning is on the Move
In the past two weeks I have had four separate conversations focusing on the use of mobile devices. Ipods, Ipads seem to dominate, whereas 12 months ago it was all about the Nintendo DS and netbooks. Such a sea-change in …