Defense of Hidgeon, a web-based Info Lit board game

The Effectiveness of a Web-based Board Game for Teaching Undergraduate Students Information Literacy Concepts and Skills - Karen Markey, et al; D-Lib
To teach incoming undergraduate students information literacy skills, a research team at the University of Michigan School of Information developed the Defense of Hidgeon, a web-based board game. We opted for a game in lieu of other approaches because what people are doing when they are playing good games is good learning. This article describes the game's backstory, how to navigate its 34-space game board, and special game-play features. The research team invited a class of undergraduate students to play the game, gave monetary awards to winning teams, and interviewed students about their game-play experiences to determine what they learned and obtain their suggestions for improvements to the game. The authors offer three premises for the redesign of the Defense of Hidgeon and discuss these premises with regard to the design of future information literacy games.
D-Lib MagazineSeptember/October 2008
Volume 14 Number 9/10ISSN 1082-9873

The SKYGUY SCRIBD EYEJOT !!!!!!

from TOURBUS Volume 14, Number 3 -- 09 Sep 2008 found at http://www.internettourbus.com/

EYEJOT - I didn't have to take a survey to see that Eyejot was cool.
This nifty (and free) video email service is completely web based.
If you have a browser and a webcam, that's all you need. With Eyejot you don't have to install any software, master complicated video editing tools or struggle with email attachments. And Eyejot doesn't care if you use Windows, Mac or Linux.
Eyejot records your video, stores it on the web, then shoots an email to your friend with the video link. The recipient can view your video message with a single click. Give it a try:
EYEJOT VIDEO EMAIL - http://www.eyejot.com%3c/a%3E

SKYGUY - Do you or your kids have questions about space or astronomy?
Ask the SkyGuy! Tom Vilot from Boulder Colorado has created a very cool site that present answers to astronomy questions in high-quality, entertaining short videos. So if you've been wondering... Why are galaxies shaped like a swirl? What is a solstice? Or how many stars are out there? Ask the SkyGuy here:
THE SKY GUY - http://skyguy.com/


SCRIBD - Apparently the Internet is running out of vowels - especially the letter E. Scribd is a classic Web 2.0 site with rounded corners, clever icons, lots of whitespace, a focus on collaboration, and no E's in it's name. Not sure why, but that's all the rage these days.
Anyway, Scribd is a cool service that makes it easy to share documents online. Scribd created iPaper, a document format built for the web, which allows you to embed a Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF document right into a web page. With iPaper, there's no need to launch an external viewer to view or interact with the document.
Scribd is also a library of user-generated information on a wide variety of topics. They claim to have over 17 billion words in their library, five times more than Wikipedia. Check it out here:
SCRIBD - http://www.scribd.com/

Remember JING?

I have used it a couple of times since the last post and I am starting to like it. It's easy to capture a screen and share what you've seen (rhymes) or record a 5 min. video with or without voice. Not bad at all.

www.jingproject.com