Learning Technologies – Rapid Sims Demonstration

I’ll be in London on 28th and 29th of January at Learning technologies 2009. I’ll be on the Caspian Learning stand (85) where we will be giving live demonstrations of the Thinking Worlds authoring tool.

Thinking Worlds enables designers, SME’s, trainers, ID’s and teachers to rapidly create 3D Immersive Simulations and Serious Games without any programming! The tool massively reduces the complexity of creating Immersive Sims and puts the power into the hands of the trainers, designers and content experts. Using simple templates, drag and drop 3D and flow diagrams a designer can rapidly create complex scenarios and games.

Come along to Stand 85 at Learning Technologies for a demo. You can build your own Sims and publish to the web live from the exhibition ready for users to play through the browser. See below for more screen shots.

Learning and Generation Y

I am over in Berlin having a great time at Online Educa. Yesterday I gave a talk and discussion on Generation Y which is one of the conference themes. The discussion focused upon the tools, methods and techniques that educators and trainers can use to successfully engage with Gen Y learners.

Defining Gen Y – easy in terms of age but in terms of attributes and attitude was a lot more fuzzy. There was active discussion on the term ‘digital native’ and how useful or dangerous this term was for practitioners. See the presentation below.