We're coming up to lunch time at the Need for a New law School conference in Krakow and there have been lots of interesting topics discussed so far.
From a SIMPLE perspective, it has been intriguing to see a pre-dominance of "clinic" based learning. Unlike Scotland where Strathclyde as the only law clinic in the country, the clinic approach is very common in Poland.
i'm off to Poland. Unfortunately that's tomorrow and i've got to get to to Gatwick tonight for a 7am flight. Whilst Paul is off in the States talking about SIMPLE, i'll be in Krakow doing the same.
Round about 5:29 she makes a very good point about immersion:
It's not every day that you get to claim that you've been compared to Gary Gygax, but amazingly that comparison has been made.
This I think gives us a massive legacy to stand up to now, and I for one am ready. SIMPLE and simulation based learning has a huge potential to change how students learn and engage in their learning. And could have as much of an effect as D&D has had.
It may not make it cool to go down the basement again just yet, but we'll make (serious) gamers out of everyone :-)
This entry was posted using the iPhone UI for MT 4 (not the typepad application though :-( )
It's been mentioned in one of my boss's and the UKCLE blog posts(which unfortunately always seems to crash my browser) that the SIMPLE project is having its launch event on Monday & Tuesday, well I'll be there as well to cover more of the "technical" issues in my role as lead developer.
The more technical parts of the day that I'll be covering will be about the Platform and Tools we have developed and where we want to take them in the future. I'll also be doing the workshop session on how to think about simulations, and getting starting on building them using our tools.
Hopefully maybe get an opportunity to live blog the days too. Anyway more information is available from the SIMPLE Community site, which will be getting upgraded to be the focal point for SIMPLE.
Once again gamer's favourite lawyer type, Jack "Take Two" Thompson is back in the news, this time for walking out of his disbarment hearing.
He is making the claim that the Judge, one Dava Tunis, does not have the authority to hear his case.
I'm curious then as to just *who*, JT thinks, has the authority? Any mortal ones?
[Via Kotaku]
So the war for the one Microblog to rule them all has started, with newcomer Plurk.com. In fact it was so under the radar that Scoble missed it, and someone stole his name first...
I like plurk actually, and aside from the whole is twitter up? thing, I like twitter too...but which one wins out?
In my estimation, both of them. I like Plurk's time line interface, and "emotive" options (likes|loves|hates| etc), I don't like the lack of EVERYONE's plurks...hmm also "tweets" sound so much nicer.
I also want an Facebook app, desktop application, API and IM integration for plurk...but I'll give it the oppportunity to catch up with twitter before I complain about that.
