Sunday, November 7, 2010

Read a paper about Immersive learning technologies Realism and online authentic learning

Read a paper about Immersive learning technologies Realism and online authentic learning byJan Herrington
Faculty of Education
University of Wollongong, Australia
jan_herrington@uow.edu.au
Thomas C. Reeves
College of Education
The University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
treeves@uga.edu
Ron Oliver
School of Communications and Multimedia
Edith Cowan University, Australia
r.oliver@ecu.edu.au

Read a paper about Investigating the Relationship between Presence and Learning in a Serious Game

Read a paper about Investigating the Relationship between Presence and Learning in a Serious Game by H. Chad Lane, Matthew J. Hays, Daniel Auerbach, and Mark G. Core of the
Institute for Creative Technologies at the
University of Southern California

Watched Youtube video about the new Playstation 3 Eye Pet Mobile version

Watched Youtube video about the new Playstation 3 Eye Pet

Watched Youtube video about the new Playstation 3 Eye Toy

Watched Youtube video about how the input device works on the new Playstation Move

Watched Youtube video about new Playstation Move

Listened to Professor Walsh Describe Immersive Games

Listened to a recording of Professor Walsh talking about Immersive games and some limitations that different platforms have and where they are moving.

Played Games on Toys For Tots web site

In this game the object was to help the little animals get across the lawn and land in the pile of leaves

I did not do very well

In this game you click on the bubbles and make them move around and bounce on each other. I had them bounce in two levels,


This game allowed you to paint various different pictures

I did Robin Hood and the Cow jumping over the moon.

In the eco game you click on different area of the screen to make the creatures move.

Here I made the fish jump out of the water.

In this game you help get santa ready.  when I went to get his hat I got into some mischief.


This was a pong game that as you can see I struggled with.

Read on Wiki about casual computer games

Read on Wiki pedia about casual computer games and how they have changed since Microsoft first introduced the casual game Solitaire through the wide variety of casual game which are available today for computers, phones and other gaming devices.

Listened to Professor Walsh Describe Causual Games

Listened to Professor Walsh describe casual computer games and specifically the Toys For Tots game

Roll Call1 Class #8 John Hardiman