A good site for Flash Game Development for the PSP

I was researching on how to write a game for the PSP when I stumbled on an article for someone from a New Zealand based company that tells you how to make a basic game in Flash for a PSP.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/psp_games.html

Webinar on Mobile Learning (eLearning Guild - 31 Jul 2008)

You can access a recording of the webinar from https://admin.connectpro.acrobat.com/_a62486834/p93398366/

Has some interesting points.

Do you need a Curriculum Design example in your portfolio to bid for a project?

Someone asked a question in Linked-In which ran something like

How does an organisation bid for a project in Curriculum Design without having such a project to present in its portfolio?

Here is how I responded:

I believe that an organisation evaluating such a bid would look at the proposed design, whether the proposed design suits the requirements and delivers ROI, the of the capablity of the vendor to to implement the proposed design, and cost of the proposed solution.

Having an implemented solution already in the portfolio would only strengthen your claims. It would not be the primary deciding factor in my opinion.

Think of it this way. There are MANY organisations who bid for and implement curriculum design projects. When they started and got the first such project, did all of them have an implemented solution in the portfolio? I would be willing to wager that this is not the case. You have to start somewhere.

I have written a design document for an RFP which required me to design a curriculum. The proposal got shortlisted for the next round. Since the organisation I work for does not have a successfully implemented instance of 'Curriculum Design' in the portfolio this example goes to prove my point.

What are your thoughts?

Interesting Ways to Use Twitter for Learning

I found an interesting blogpost from Sarda's twitter about how people can use Twitter for learning stuff. The examples are quite interesting.

A nice and free site ... But is it eLearning 2.0?

I just found http://www.edu20.org/

It sounds a bit too good to be true but I am starting to explore the site. I'll keep writing about this. I'll be trying to setup some collaborative learning experiments on this site...

The 'shift' in learning

This inspired me today.

Although we ‘know’ most of what is shown in the presentation, it still induced a sense of wonderment in me.

An Isometric City

A colleague of mine showed me this:

http://www.kennethfejer.com/isocity/

Every time we think of a free explore learning game we seem to think of expensive graphics and what have you. It is almost inspirational to see an example where mere pixel art can do so much.

Some one should make a learning game using pixel art like this