links for 2007-04-20

• Yahoo! Teachers
  a social networking site for K-12 teachers in the US – worth keeping an eye on for inspiration if nothing else.
  (tags: education yahoo community teachers web2.0 teaching elearning lessons tpu)
• Frengo – build your own low-tech mobile phone games and training material
  a “social play network” offering members an interface for building SMS/MMS games and messaging services – could be an interesting avenue to explore if you wanted to get into mobile learning
  (tags: mlearning moblog mobile elearning frengo phone mobilephones)
• GameJump: Mobile Games. Free.
  a free mobile games portal using an ad-supported model – mobile community features: user-generated game reviews, contests, top 10 lists, and game ratings.
  (tags: mobile games free phone java j2me symbian cellphone)
• Machinima: Bridging Games, Film, and Animation – GameCareerGuide.com
  Machinima is the art of making animated films within a real-time virtual environment using a video game engine. Where animation is slow and painstaking to produce, machinima is not – it uses the real-time nature of video game engines to animate in real ti
  (tags: machinima animation cartoons videogames video film)
• Machinima 101
  animating in the fast lane – how to use game engines to create real-time animations at a fraction of the time/money cost of a regular movie or flash production.
  (tags: education elearning games howto machinima videogames 101)
• Using Instructional Design Strategies To Foster Curiosity. ERIC Digest.
  Curiosity is a critical component of creativity, and fostering curiosity and creativity in today’s learners is a challenge faced by educators and instructional designers alike
  (tags: learning pedagogy curiosity ERIC learning.design instructional.design creativity toread)