Kevin McNulty Play is serious business How we learn best empowering emotional engagment behavourial change Immersing Storytelling into games Simulation based learning Thoughts: Admittedly….I shut down after about 15 minutes…demonstration videos didn’t work. He works for Terris-Hill and focused only on a simulation used to decrease injuries and...

John Lester Blogged Live Intro to Second Life Free to access All about the way we interact in the real world Shared experiences 150+ square miles 4 million users Live Video and audio streaming..live concerts Tools to create whatever and share Cool time lapse video showing 4 people build a house together Emotional bandwidth…the use of real world emotions and...

Kenton Janzen Client Technology Manager Sasktel Blogged Live History History of Telecommunications PhotoPhone invented by Bell in 1880 PicturePhone introduced by AT&T in 1964 Media Convergence email on your TV Video on your phone Upload photos on your phone Talk to people on your computer GPS technology with cellular in Kid Tracking, Pet...

Megan Cole Blogged Live Talks about the use of Social Media in her personal life Began blogging last year when she worked at the Olympics Focused on sharing with family and friends Flickr and tagging Youtube RSS Delicious Digg Social networks…myspace, facebook Citizen Journalism…public contributions Discussion about transparency and the need for...

Blogged Live Chris Brooks and Scott Bateman Focus on Artificial Intelligence and Web 2.0 Smart agents….software which autonomously interacts with its environment Intelligent agents can adapt and learn from each other by observing their environment and interacting  (example…Clippy…not a very good one) Semantic Web hasn’t fully developed and...