Book chapter “Games make better …” by Mark Prensky

July 1st, 2009

Scoyo, the Berlin Media Professional School and the FU Berlin published an E-Book about Social Educational Gaming: “Spielend lernen – Aspekte des Game-Basierten Social Learning”.

There is enclosed an interesting, english chapter by Mark Prensky: “Games make better …”.

qKAI Maven project documentation

June 30th, 2009

Within his Bachelor thesis about search space limitation (details follow soon), Mark Kubacki established Apache Maven (amongst others) in the qKAI application framework:

Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. (http://maven.apache.org/)

With Maven we got a nice project documentation now – available under http://docs.qkai.org. Especially the API section is work in progress and will be enhanced by and by.

1st Call for papers: eL&mL 2010

June 30th, 2009

eL&mL 2010 is the second international conference on mobile, hybrid, and on-line learning. It will take place in St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles from February 10-15, 2010 (colocated with other events as part of the DigitalWorld 2010).

The Call for Papers is open now! The submission deadline is September 10, 2009. Please consider to contribute!

Listing of SPARQL endpoints

June 29th, 2009

There is a nice overview of currently alive, buggy and dead SPARQL endpoints in the ESW wiki:

http://esw.w3.org/topic/SparqlEndpoints

Of course there are lots of other interesting things to find in the ESW wiki ;-)