In the light of some more work being done as a result of workshops elsewhere, I’m happy to have been able to update my previous blog posts on:

Thinking Out Of The (X)Box: Creative writing through computer games.
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East Lothian are revealing what goes into a successful adoption of games consoles, this time the Sony PSP, moving beyond the obvious game-playing capacity into cross-curricular uses for the tool. Find out how they’re doing it from ICT Officer Tess Watson.

Either young people’s sight reading is much better than mine at a similar age, or the blue, moving cursor in Sibelius transports them into a free-style, space-time kind of reading similar to Guitar Hero. It could be that they’re not really sure which beat any given note (and especially syncopation) occupies and, in the context […]

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Will must have finally ended up with some spare time hunting around YouTube this morning to find this. University researcher Johnny Chung Lee has taken a £34.25 Wiimote, some old ballpoint pens and some infrared buttons you could find in your Physics department to create a system that can turn any surface into […]

Jim in The Highlands was quick to note Channel 4’s move from £6m per year on educational television programming to a large part of £6m per year on online educational programming. Is educational TV dead on C4? Not quite, but it’s certainly undergone some serious surgery to make it recognisable to a 2008 teen. Channel […]

Tess Watson over in East Lothian spent yesterday playing with her new PSPs, but also managed to experiment with colleague Ollie Bray with using Glow on the portable gaming console. Another great excuse reason to get PSPing in your classrooms! Ollie explains a bit more about what the PSP project involves.

Roo’s been great at posting the audio and some visuals from last week’s panel session where I moderated on how organisations could and should harness the ‘Facebook generation’. He had quite possibly the best quote of the week: “World of Warcraft is the new golf”, courtesy of Joi Ito.

You can see and hear Roo’s excellent […]

Our gaming for learning guru, Derek Robertson, has temporarily become LTS’s man in Singapore, pictured here catching up on some Christmas shopping. He’s earned a break, though, having taken some of Scotland’s gaming for learning work to the other side of the planet for the large ICET Conference and Exhibition.
As well as representing LTS, Derek’s […]

CBS last night kicked off their CSI:NY crime show (on Channel 5 in the UK) in Second Life. Second Lifers can solve the cliffhanger to the television series that would otherwise not be played out until a show in February. By throwing players online the mystery can be resolved - by them - far quicker.
This […]

Over on the Consolarium blog we see how pupils from a Dundee Primary School made a huge impact at this year’s Be Very Afraid event at Bafta, London.
Derek Robertson from LTS accompanied the Consolarium students on an exciting first airplane ride, first trip to London and first time working hard at Bafta to show visitors […]