Picks

If you're new to this blog, here are some of my favorite blog posts that you might enjoy reading:

Teaching and learning

• Lessons learned from Rails Girls and why we really do need more women in tech
• Saving bear cubs in Cataclysm - or - the story of why e-learning needs game designers
• Improving student engagement with game mechanics and a smart progress bar
• Helping people find answers
• The problem with workshops
• What does "I don't have time to try this" really mean?

Mobile technologies and trends

• 5 key mobile trends you should know about [Lecture]
• Android for girls: a new frontier
• iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7: the classroom potential [Part 2]
• iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7: the facts and my experience [Part 1]
• Mobile single-tasking leads the way to a more human friendly desktop

Moodle

• Imagining a mobile Moodle
• New Moodle presentation
• Virtual worlds in education and Moodle

Other tools

• Having Fun and Getting Fit: An Overview of Exergames
• 14 great tools for teaching, learning and collaboration
• Facebook News Feed and Social Games: How to Manage the Spam?
• Second Life isn't dead, but it's a niche

Thoughts

• How I found great chocolate in Brussels and glimpsed the flame of hope
• Why I write at least 750 words a day
• My grandpa is a blogger and doesn't even know it
• Musings on the importance of speaking English