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Thoughts on Learning in 3D- Virtual book Tour

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Tom King

I’m fortunate that this blog is an early stop on the “#Lrn3D” virtual book tour for Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration by Karl M. Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll. There is much to come … Continue reading →

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Second Life and Wii: Are we ready for the Goldrush, Backlash or both

Posted on July 27, 2007 by Tom King

That last post on the Wii and SecondLife was supposed to be a quick puff-piece, but as I mulled it over it grew and grew until I split it into two with this opinion post as the second part. Personally, … Continue reading →

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ACM / eLearn Magazine on Second Life for Learning

Posted on March 24, 2007 by Tom King

The Association for Computing Machinery (acm) publishes eLearn, an online magazine about Education and Technology. Just a few days ago they published Another Life: Virtual Worlds as Tools for Learning, by Jay Cross, Internet Time Group; Tony O’Driscoll, IBM; and … Continue reading →

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Training Video Gets New Life and a Second One too

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Tom King

On February 16, 2007 I hosted an Adobe eSeminar on Machinima as a tool for developing training videos. Tom Crawford explained how one can co-opt video games or re-purpose them for creating cheap, effective training videos. Using something like The … Continue reading →

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