Bringing our own devices

Bringing our own devices

We’ve been working our way along the development curve of moving the school to #byod. If it’s a new idea to you, what we are trying to achieve is an environment where any user can bring any device they like to school and access all the services they require using it.

On Motor Skills, iOS and more Pac-men

On Motor Skills, iOS and more Pac-men

Posted by: on Jan 23, 2012 | No Comments

In the previous post I discussed how I got myself back in to Pac-man, and the little set of tactics I came up with that I thought made me good at it. Here I want to look at why I appear to be rubbish at Pac-man on iPad, or at least worse.

Pac-man and Reflection

Pac-man and Reflection

Posted by: on Jan 22, 2012 | One Comment

I’ve been reintroducing myself to Pac-man this week. Seems poetic in many ways that my starting point to look more seriously at games and what they have to contribute to learning is with one of the first games I played as a child.

Me and Gaming – A Brief History

Posted by: on Jan 19, 2012 | No Comments

For readers not sharing my course- most of what appears on the blog in the next few weeks is related my current  GBL module on the MSc E-Learning I’m doing. Feel free to point your RSS readers elsewhere if this isn’t your thing.

It seemed appropriate at the start of a module devoted to games based learning to start by reflecting on my experience of gaming, particularly in the digital realm.