PBL via ARG

This is the location I will be posting articles realted to my current project PBL via ARG (problem based learning via alternative reality games).  My articles list will be updated as I become more parsimonious with the content.

ARG

Dondlinger, M. & Warren, S. (2009). Alternate reality games as simulations.

Dondlinger, M., Warren, S., & Barab… Continue reading

EVOKE H20 Project

This is a project I just finished.  It is a six weeks challenge (assignment) for 7th grade science students.  All TEKS that are meet are listed on the website.  This challenge was inspired by the real ARG Urgent Evoke.

This type of Reality Game is hopefully where educational technology is heading. … Continue reading

Building a Scale

So my first big light bulb moment occurred this past weekend in CECS 6510.  Dr. K has been telling us that we are learning to build a scale and then learning how to measure something with it.  Well I guess I am just really hardheaded because I just got it!

We are essentially looking for connections… Continue reading

Cronbach’s α = Confused ∞

Thank goodness for SPSS.  When I started CECS 6510 and CECS 6800 I was very nervous about statistics.  I mean come on, I stink at math!  When I was growing up I had dyslexia and no one knew it.  They just kept trying glasses on me and placing me in math classes that I could… Continue reading

Well this may be true, but after working on all of this group work at a distance, I am not sure that technology makes it any better, just probable!  From technical difficulties to miss-communication distance makes synchronous actions confusion.  Distance seems to add fuzz or gray matter to the conversation requiring an almost never ending loop of miss understanding.  With… Continue reading