Archive for January, 2008

Learning in, with and through Drama.

5, Jan 2008

Learning in, with and through Drama.

“ In the book Drama of Colour Saldaña discusses a study done by researchers Gourgey, Bosseau, and Delgado (1985) with lower socio-economic Black and Hispanic students in elementary school. After a six month improvisational drama [...]

NMC Symposium session update

5, Jan 2008

Back in December Alex Hayes and I presented a session at the NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication. I’ve just been advised by Alan Levine from the NMC that all the videos and transcripts from our session and others are available at:
http://www.nmc.org/2007-fall-virtual-symposium/resources
Our bits and pieces are here:
Evolution | Revolution: Architectures for Participation
Kim Flintoff, [...]

Kenyan Crisis

5, Jan 2008

Dear IDEA members, friends and colleagues
I am sure you are seeing heart-rending reports of the ethnic violence that is tearing Kenya apart and claiming hundreds of lives, following last week’s election results. Some of the worst violence has erupted in Kisumu – the city that hosted IDEA 98, a unique [...]

Not Possible IRL: Turning the page on 2007 in virtual worlds – What happened and what’s next

3, Jan 2008

Larry Pixel: NMC Virtual Worlds plans a big announcement after the first of the year. It will come out first in the NMC Campus Observer, about January 10th.Also, the NMC’s highly influential Horizon Report (75,000+ copies downloaded or purchased in hard copy in 2007) will be released in late January. The contents of the 2008 [...]

Australian net filtering plan is fraught with problems

1, Jan 2008

Australia is slowly waking up to a little publicised ALP policy about “cleaning up the internet to protect our children”. Once again it seems to be a case of apply the most ineffective and intrusive means possible. No-one is saying that we don’t want kids to be safe. The overly simplistic gainsaying [...]


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