US: Online Language Learning Suits Homeschooling Mom
Posted October 5th, 2008 by Heidi Bakk-Hansen
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Computer Delivers Chinese to Home
By Kate Tsubata, Washington Times (Opinion)
10/5/08
One of the advantages of home-schooling is the range of technologies constantly being developed that we can use for our families' education.
If, like many millions of families, yours followed the Beijing Olympics, you may have become curious about the Chinese language, one of the oldest on the planet, and spoken by about 1 billion of the world's inhabitants.
Last night, I sat down at my computer and had a Chinese language lesson conducted by a teacher who happened to be sitting at her computer in Beijing.
US: More Educators Explore the Virtues of MMORGs
Posted October 5th, 2008 by Heidi Bakk-Hansen
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'World of Warcraft' Gets Kids Interested in School
By Jeremy Hsu, Fox News
10/5/08
It's not unusual for video game players to speak of a routine that involves ordering pizza, getting a sugar jolt, and then playing "World of Warcraft" for hours.
But the person talking in this case is Constance Steinkuehler, an educational researcher who organized an afterschool group for boys to play, for educational purposes, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
US: Employee Training Continues to Enter the World of Games
Posted October 5th, 2008 by Heidi Bakk-Hansen
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Q&A: Virtual Heroes Training Real Heroes
By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot
10/3/08
PSPs teaching Hilton hoteliers? Silent Hill artists training Special Forces with RPGs? Grand Theft Auto designers helping police and paramedics? It's all in a day's work for CEO Jerry Heneghan's cutting-edge company.
Next time you check into a Hilton hotel, you may see one of the employees attentively playing a PlayStation Portable. However, there's a good chance that the staffer isn't just sneaking some God of War: Chains of Olympus on company time. The hotel giant has signed on to a new program, HGI Ultimate Team Play, to use a custom-designed PSP game to teach its employees about the finer points of the hospitality trade.
