Digital Game-Based Learning
Marc Prensky’s website, including a wealth of information and links to sites on digital game-based learning:
Other game-based learning sites:
http://elearningrandomwalk.blogspot.com
http://www.roleplaysim.org/papers
Instructional Gaming Forum
http://igforum.us
Instructional Technology Forum - Previous Discussions & Papers
http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/Previous.html
Bounded Community: Designing and Facilitating Learning Communities in Formal Courses
Learning communities can emerge spontaneously when people find common learning goals and pursue projects and tasks together in pursuit of those goals. Bounded learning communities (BLCs) are groups that form within a structured teaching or training setting, typically a course. Unlike spontaneous communities, BLCs develop in direct response to guidance provided by an instructor, supported by a cumulative resource base. This article presents strategies that help learning communities develop within bounded frameworks, particularly online environments. Seven distinguishing features of learning communities are presented. When developing supports for BLCs, teachers should consider their developmental arc, from initial acquaintance and trust-building, through project work and skill development, and concluding with wind-down and dissolution of the community. Teachers contribute to BLCs by establishing a sense of teaching presence, including an atmosphere of trust and reciprocal concern. The article concludes with a discussion of assessment issues and the need for continuing research.
http://www.irrodl.org/content/v5.3/wilson.html
Presence Research
Presence-Research.org aims to offer up-to-date and relevant information and resources on (tele-)presence, i.e. the subjective experience of ‘being there’ in mediated environments such as virtual reality, simulators, cinema, television, etc.
http://www.presence-research.org/
History of Computers
Bernard Poole developed this PowerPoint presentation which presents a brief overview of the history of computers.
http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/historyofcomputers_files/frame.htm