I’ve had a strong interest in video games on a personal level for many years (see this page for some of my thoughts). More recently, I’ve become interested on a professional level in the potential for games to be used to support learning and other ’serious’ purposes - hence the name “Serious Games“.
I see [...]
It is a good time to be a virtual musician, especially if your platform of choice comes from Nintendo. This past weekend saw the release of versions of the popular Guitar Hero and Rock Band game franchises for the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Wii, respectively.
Guitar Hero On Tour brings the guitar strumming fun [...]
Also filed in Miscellaneous, Music, Video Games
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Tagged DS, Guitar Hero On Tour, Music, Nintendo, PlayStation 3, Rock Band, virtual, Wii, XBox 360
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Dave Snowden, with whom I share a general dislike (maybe distrust is a better word) for lessons learned / best practices, has a post from about a year ago on the difference between lessons learned and learning lessons. I’m revisiting these ideas after sharing my thoughts about knowledge work as craft and the growth [...]
Though I hate to say it, this explains a lot. I don’t know if I buy into it completely, but I think anyone who fits the description of “innovator” given above can probably recount more than one story like this from personal experience.
Also filed in Books, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, Learning, Narrative, Re-invention, Work Literacy
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Tagged Anecdote, Early Adopters, Innovation, Innovators, Learning, Work Literacy, WorkLiteracy
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Nearly 10 years ago now, I was responsible for customer training for a new piece of equipment we had produced. (Actually, I assumed responsibility about 1/2 way through the project.) After training our first customer, I sat down with the training crew to see how we could make the next session better, as I had seen and heard some things that weren’t correct, or could be better.
Silly me.
At the end of a brief history of human communication, Dave Gray of XPLANE gets to what he sees as the future of communications: visual communications.
Today, we are free once more. Paradoxically, now that everything has been reduced to zeros and ones, our only limit is our imagination. What’s interesting is that [...]
Also filed in Blogs, Knowledge Work, Learning, Mastery, Tools, Video Games, toys, visual thinking
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Tagged communications, dave gray, language, literacy, Tools, visual thinking, xplane
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When a friend told me I should try out Microsoft OneNote 2007 - I think his exact words were, “Dude, I don’t know how I lived without it!” - I downloaded the trial to give it a try. (Interestingly OneNote was not part of the Office 2007 Professional package, it is only part of the Home and Student package.)
So far, I like it. Or at least the concept. I’ve not put too much into it yet, but I see the possibilities.
Also filed in Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, Miscellaneous, Re-invention, Tools
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Tagged Infinity Journal, Levenger, Microsoft Office 2007, Mind-Manager, Moleskine, Notebooks, OneNote, Outlook, TabletPC, The Brain
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