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Comment on Porthampton City is growing! by Simon

Simon — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:50:08 +0000

Hi Amer

a social enterprise version was designed and successfully run by a colleague of mine, Sarah Underwood, at Leeds University. I’m sure she can send you more details if you contact her. We have recently presented a joint paper on this but it will not be published for a while yet. You can also find a chapter I have written in this book which outlines the process in much more detail:

Using Games to Enhance Learning and Teaching: A Beginner's Guide

Please don’t hesitate to contact me should you require any help.

Simon

Comment on Porthampton City is growing! by Amer Khan

Amer Khan — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:21:05 +0000

Hi simon. How is your enterprise arg going? You mention a social enterprise arg. What happened to that? I am interested in running an arg for my undergrad CSR related subject in 2013. Your blog has been of immense help to me. Cheers Amer – lecturer Swinburne university malaysia.

Comment on Using an Alternate Reality Game to Teach Enterprise by Porthampton City is growing! « Learning and Teaching in HE

Porthampton City is growing! « Learning and Teaching in HE — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:13:26 +0000

[...] idea for my enterprise Authentic Learning Activity (ALA), which is set in the virtual city called Porthampton, I always had a vision that the city would expand to contain more “properties” than the [...]

Comment on Authentic Learning Activities for when simulations are not quite enough by Porthampton City is growing! « Learning and Teaching in HE

Porthampton City is growing! « Learning and Teaching in HE — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:13:21 +0000

[...] I first started developing the idea for my enterprise Authentic Learning Activity (ALA), which is set in the virtual city called Porthampton, I always had a vision that the city [...]

Comment on Using Audio for Summative Student Feedback by Simon

Simon — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:21:11 +0000

Good points Emma thanks. Curiously, I thought I would make lots of errors during the recordings but actually I didn’t make many. Also, most of the research I have read on the subject says not to bother re-recording feedback. A few err’s and umm’s are quite natural. I have not seen or used captivate but might have a look.

Cheers

Simon

Comment on Using Audio for Summative Student Feedback by Emma

Emma — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:20:08 +0000

Hi Simon,
I’ve also tried in the past (in that particular case, for a dyslexic student) using Captivate; I opened up her essay in Word, selected the bit I wanted to comment on & then spoke to her, trying to imagine what I’d say were she in the office & anticipate the questions I thought she’d ask.

I then also (once I’d said it all) did a summary in Word of what I’d said, in case it didn’t work.

She was bowled over by it & said she’d never had any feedback like that before – and how useful it was. (This was maybe 5 years ago, long before we had Wimba). I’ve not tried with Wimba, mostly because I’ve got quite large classes & I tend to write quite a lot of feedback (in Word – never by hand) – & though I can speak faster than I can write, by the time I’ve recorded it 6 times because I made an error, the time saving’s not quite as great.

But, maybe I should try again. (Though I think that Captivate would be better for what I’m doing, as they’re giving stuff in as websites / flash, so hard to get a point of reference without seeing it – which makes doing audio seem sensible. If that makes sense!

Comment on Using an Alternate Reality Game to Teach Enterprise by Joel Josephson

Joel Josephson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:30:51 +0000

This may be of interest. An EU funded project that made the first ARG for languages. Coordinated by the University of the West of Scotland.

Joel