A CAL blog to check out http://speedchange.blogspot.com/ Also, see Gill’s blog in the blog roll. Jin Tan presented a poster on blogging, so I’ll look out for CAL comments on her blog http://jin-thoughts.blogspot.com/
Paper called “Is there no life in Second Life?’ Presented by Moon Eggplant. Paul Hollins – http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/pah1/- asked to give this paper in world, but the CAL conference organisers wouldn’t let him. Wonder why? Describing briefly some work in progress. Refers to Synthetic World (Castranova 1994) and to Metaverse (Stephenson 1992) participation observarion as an […]
Here we are at Anesa’s presentation at CAL, and Gill and I are sitting side by side, blogging her presentation, which is going well. See Gill’s blog here http://conclave.open.ac.uk/acablog/ She’s got her newly revised presentation up on screen, and she’s using the script as discussed at 1am last night! People are paying attention – all […]
https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/r.m.ferguson/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/gillc.jpg Hey, I’m blogging Gill while she’s giving her talk. It was a tad complicated getting my laptop to take the photo, then getting it cropped and here via iphoto, but it does work. Gill’s talking about ehr data analysis, and she’s got some images up that were taken with the pda. They come up […]
Judith Good talked on ‘Learning and motivational affordances in narrative-based game authoring’. Judith http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/judithg/index.html had written her paper with Judy Robertson http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~judyr/ They’d thought in detail about why kids enjoy programming computer games, and why they are prepared to put substantially more time and effort into this than into most school subjects. They run games design […]
John Yearwood talked about ‘Interactive narrative by thematic connection of dramatic situations’. Given his material, I think he could have come up with a more user-friendly title. He described an approach to generating interactive narrative in a computer game by using an argument-based structure to work out the next event in the language sequence. He used […]
Joseph South looked at videos for teaching students English. He showed how standard videos tend to have rather creepy people addressing each other in very formal language and showed how a story-based video showing more realistic interaction is more helpful. Relates this to situated learning: ‘knowledge is situated, being in part a product of the […]
Paul’s in KMI http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/paulm/ but his interests don’t appear to overlap with mine. What I found most interesting about his talk was his summary of a narrative plan in one of his pieces of research. First, theme introduction provides characters, props, scenery and anything else needed for the narrative. Second, Conflict Introduction introduces a problem. Third, […]
Agneta Bostom http://www.chemistrynarratives.com/research.html gave a very interesting talk on ‘How narrative from lived experience facilitate learning in chemistry’. Lots of the science students she spoke to felt there was no place for storytelling in chemistry but them told stories which explained their interest in chemistry or in certain aspects of it. Made me think of Primo […]
The next paper was produced by a student who then went off to Greece, leaving her supervisor to present it. It described a largely unsuccessful and, in many ways, misconceived piece of research. As even the writer of the paper wasn’t interested enough to come and hear it, I’m not sure why we had to […]