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ventriloquy is the podcast associated with my blog 'voyeurism'. both the blog and the podcast are primarily to document my doctoral research in adolescent cognitive psychology and spatial discourse. the podcast will also include discussion relevant to teachers of Geography and Social Studies, and occasionally information from my home region of Southeast Asia. Primary Format : Blogs Also Listed as: Blog City : Singapore State/Province : Singapore Country : Singapore Country : AS User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: cum | Blog | Psychology | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of ventriloquy Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of ventriloquy Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of ventriloquy Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. a geographical conundrum in Second Life the one hundred and fifty-second episode of ventriloquy introduces my initial musings on a conceptual puzzle that i have been thinking about regarding the geography of Second Life. it's a conundrum which i've been playing with at the back of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Temasek - featuring Nicky Ree the one hundred and fifty-first episode of ventriloquy features the creative talent of Second Life fashion-designer Nicky Ree, who is featured in this month's issue of Her World. Nicky is a Singaporean with Peranakan roots. You can learn more about... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Temasek - a warm welcome to visitors from International Schools Island (part II) the one hundred and fiftieth episode of ventriloquy bids visitors from shamblesguru Voom's (RL: Chris Smith) International Schools Island (ISI) a very warm welcome (and not the first time, it must be said) :-) shamblesguru has very kindly accepted my... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Temasek - introducing our sixth architect the one hundred and forty-ninth episode of ventriloquy brings you news of a busy weekend of building at Temasek. Temasek is the region in Second Life that will showcase the culture, history and ecology of Singapore. it is being designed... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 20080510736 [Flickr] mone_tpatpc posted a photo: - Camera phone upload powered by ShoZu Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New home office [Flickr] freaksngeeks posted a photo: New home office - via www.twitxr.com/freaksngeeks/updates/43778 - Location: El Cerrito, CA, USA Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 133 [Flickr] Okko Pyykkö posted a photo: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carbon/Silicon [Flickr] minipixel posted a photo: Mick Jones and Tony James at the Village, Dublin last night. On my dreadful 'phone camera. See where this picture was taken. [?] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 20080511352 [Flickr] tjernberg.se posted a photo: - Camera phone upload powered by ShoZu Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website book the blog the one hundred and forty-eighth episode of ventriloquy celebrates my first anniversary in Second Life as Veritas Raymaker :-) i took a great deal of care considering the various ways i could commemorate this milestone, and in the end, i... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website a tale of two (and a half) conferences the one hundred and forty-seventh episode of ventriloquy presents my main takeaways from two conferences i attend over the past few days - both were loosely on the theme of virtual worlds. the earlier was the vBusiness Expo organised by... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introducing the Starling Project the one-hundred-and-forty-sixth episode of ventriloquy introduces the Starling Project. The Starling Project refers to my proposed research into an education initiative in Second Life and other virtual worlds, that will keep me busy till 2011. i am applying for funding... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website first build the one hundred and forty-fifth episode of ventriloquy shares my thoughts on the potential role that Second Life could play in nurturing Communities of Practice. as in so many things, the catalysts behind these recent musings come from two seemingly... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website in solidarity, in memory one year on, we stand in remembrance. Virginia Tech Second Life® Memorial Tribute Video Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website active avatars in Second Life, ranked as a proportion of countries' respective population sizes (February 2008) following up on February's post, here is the breakdown of figures for active avatars per country for February 2008, normalised against the respective population sizes (again, population totals were obtained from the CIA's World Factbook). for those of you who... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website introduction to Second Life, in Mandarin Chinese, to visitors from Taiwan the one hundred and forty-fourth episode of ventriloquy is a recording of a talk by my colleague - Assistant Professor Chen Wenli - as she introduced Second Life to a group of visitors to the National Institute of Education, Nanyang... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website visit by faculty and grad students from the University of Texas at Austin to the Raymaker Field Studies Centre at Norma the one-hundred-and-forty-third episode of ventriloquy is a recording of a brief visit by about 150 faculty and graduate students from the University of Texas at Austin, to the Raymaker Field Studies Centre at Norma. the visit was part of a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Design of Interactive Learning Environments" talk on An Introduction to Second Life, National Institute of Education, Singapore (part II) this is the concluding part of episode 142, which is a recording of the discussion which ensued after an introductory talk i gave to a class of Masters candidates at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. it... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Design of Interactive Learning Environments" talk on An Introduction to Second Life, National Institute of Education, Singapore (part I) the one-hundred-and-forty-second episode of ventriloquy is a recording of a talk i gave to Masters candidates at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, here in Singapore. i was invited to talk about Second Life, by my friend and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21st century pen-pal the one-hundred-and-forty-first episode of ventriloquy celebrates the Slovenian presidency of the European Union, by bringing you a comparison between Singapore and Slovenia, and how these similarities and differences are mediated in Second Life. please do join me in this 3.0... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Temasek - a place like home the one-hundred-and-fortieth episode of ventriloquy brings you some of my initial reflections in the first five days building the sim Temasek. Temasek is designed to be a showcase of the best that Singapore has to offer, in terms of her... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website St Michel - the Jules Verne Museum featured in Deja Vu International magazine The March 2008 issue (Issue Number 5) of Deja Vu International, features a very complimentary write-up of St Michel - the Jules Verne Museum :-) i would like to thank Anna Avalanche for taking the time and effort to cover... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Raymaker Land Management - the Raymaker Hotel at Unzen, and the M/V Scheherazade the one hundred and thirty-ninth episode of ventriloquy documents several of the more pertinent learning points that have been personally meaningful to me, during these first twelve days as an entrepreneur in the Second Life land management business. i have... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Raymaker Land Management - the brochure is ready :-) i've just finished a simple brochure about Raymaker Land Management :-) it's available as a PDF, as well as in the popular THiNC-book format for you to read within Second Life :-) the brochure is available in-world from any of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the London-Raymaker Gallery at Etopia Prime the one hundred and thirty-eighth episode of ventriloquy celebrates three exciting developments in my learning journey in Second Life as Veritas Raymaker. these are: - the London-Raymaker Gallery at Etopia Prime, which represents my second project in partnership with Sanspareil... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website love is in the air the one-hundred-and-thirty-seventh episode of ventriloquy celebrates two weddings - one in Real Life, and one in Second Life. does the celebration of love need further explanation or justification? :-) please do join me in this 1.5 MB download, as i... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the Raymaker Vulcanigallery at Da Boom the one hundred and thirty-sixth episode of ventriloquy introduces you to my most recent learning facility in Second Life: the Raymaker Vulcanigallery at Da Boom. as its name implies, the Vulcanigallery allows you to come up close and personal with... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sanspareil London's Lava Gallery at van Gogh happy New Year to all! :-) i open the year with the one-hundred-and-thirty-fifth episode of ventriloquy, in which i invite you to visit a gallery of fine art and furniture designed and crafted by my friend Sanspareil London. Sanspareil's Lava... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website all glory, laud and honour i can't get this song out of my head... :-) We will glorify the King of kings We will glorify the Lamb We will glorify the Lord of lords Who is the great I AM Lord Jehovah reigns in majesty... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the Raymaker Vulcanigallery at Norma the one-hundred-and-thirty-fourth episode of ventriloquy is somewhat of a retrospective on 2007, and represents a status report of sorts of my first eight months in Second Life as Veritas Raymaker. the 1.8 MB download ends with an invitation to visit... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website celebrating the Saviour's birth a very blessed Christmas to all! :-) this year, the Christmas episode of ventriloquy is backgrounded by scenes from my plots of land from within Second Life. please join me in this 19.1 MB celebration :-) "For unto us a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Communicating Across Disciplinary Cultures in Second Life" Final Project, University of Texas at Austin the one-hundred-and-thirty-second episode of ventriloquy is inspired by the sustainable development models - known as the Alley Flat Initiative - showcased by the graduate students of Dr Leslie Jarmon's "Communicating Across Disciplinary Cultures in Second Life". the students were Kim... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website hope it's infectious the one-hundred-and-thirty-first episode of ventriloquy introduces Solafirma - an architectural build by Alex Bader. Alex has very kindly granted me living space within Solafirma, and i take the opportunity to pose the question of the relationship between architectural builds and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website face in the crowd following up on the theme of findability - from Episode 130 of my podcast ventriloquy - i'm pleased to draw your attention to the creative output of two distinguished Second Life residents, both released today :-) Do try out Tateru... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website towards the semantic Second Life the one-hundred-and-thirtieth episode of ventriloquy introduces Highlight Tours - a Second Life tour agency set up by my friend Rafale Kamachi. [in the interests of transparency, St Michel - the Jules Verne Museum (which i designed and built) is a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website curiouser and curiouser the one-hundred-and-twenty-ninth episode of ventriloquy considers the transversal experiment by the American television network CBS, in its airing of this week's CSI: NY episode Down the Rabbit Hole. if you haven't already heard, Down the Rabbit Hole describes the adventures... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Take her to sea, Mr Murdoch" the one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth episode of ventriloquy is one which i've been meaning to produce for two months now. this 1.5 MB download celebrates the Grand Opening of the RMS Titanic in Second Life! :-) conceptualised and built by my friend Morphius... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the Raymaker Field Studies Centre at Sky Island Bay - Sky Island Cove annex the one-hundred-and-twenty-seventh episode of ventriloquy introduces the most recent phase of expansion to the Raymaker Field Studies Centre at Sky Island Bay. The Sky Island Cove annex adds weather simulations to the list of geographical topics already on offer at... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website heart of the ocean here's a sneak preview of something in which i have had a small part to play :-) many, many thanks to Morphius Barbosa for making space in the realisation of his dream, for me. :-) Technorati Tags: geography, globalization, Second... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Communication across the Disciplines" Graduate Seminar, University of Texas at Austin the one-hundred-and-twenty-sixth episode of ventriloquy is a recording of a graduate seminar for students of the Graduate School, Professional Development and Community Engagement, at the University of Texas at Austin. i was invited to participate in the seminar by its... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website are you for real? the one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth episode of ventriloquy revisits questions of reality and identity in virtual environments. in a way, it's my way of making sense of various events and experiences that i've experienced over the past month, from concert gigs to bereavement,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website two artists i'd just like to draw your attention to the work of two artists, both of whom i had the privilege of interacting with earlier today. both are British, and both are pioneers in their respective fields. Sanspareil London is the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website presentation "an introduction to Second Life" the one-hundred-and-twenty-fourth episode of ventriloquy is a recording of the first-third of an introductory talk on Second Life, that i gave today to colleagues from the National Institute of Education, the Ministry of Education, and the S Rajaratnam School of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website celebrating friendship in this one-hundred-and-twenty-third episode of ventriloquy, i simply talk about three of the friends i've made in Second Life. one has recently passed away, but i've made at least two new friends in the past 24 hours, and i'm excited... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website presentation on Second Life to the Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group, National Institute of Education the one-hundred-and-twenty-second episode of ventriloquy is a recording of a talk on Second Life i gave today to my colleagues at the Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group, here at the National Institute of Education in Singapore. please do join... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website my presentation at the annual conference of the RGS-IBG yesterday was the first day of the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers. my presentation was on the work which my friend and colleague - William Yeo (who teaches at the Nanyang Junior... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the Raymaker Marine Environments Centre at Hatteras Island the one-hundred-and-twentieth episode of ventriloquy introduces my main contribution to reef education in Second Life, to date. the Raymaker Marine Environments Centre at Hatteras Island features informational exhibits, a simple model depicting how reef-health is affected by climate change, and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulau-Pulau Bompa it was a dark and stormy night. *grinz* :-P seriously, last night saw an event that one does not get the privilege of witnessing every day. a tremendous fissure opened up in Sky Island West, and in a seemingly cataclysmic... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website l'arc en ciel - the Matthew Shepard memorial the one hundred and eighteenth episode of ventriloquy is probably the most personal that i have produced. nine years' ago, i was taking a Masters course in Boston. in October 1998, i learned of the shocking circumstances surrounding the death... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website St Michel - the Jules Verne Museum the one-hundred-and-seventeenth episode of ventriloquy introduces my most ambitious project in Second Life to date. St Michel - the Jules Verne Museum is likely the first facility of its size in Second Life to honour the life and creative works... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the Educators Coop the one-hundred-and-sixteenth episode of ventriloquy introduces an initiative to provide educators in Second Life a residential environment in which to network and collaborate. the Educators Coop is led by Bluewave Ogee (RL: Dr Leslie Jarmon), Doc Lindman (RL: Dr Paul... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the Raymaker Marine Environments Centre at Sky Island Bay the one-hundred-and-fifteenth episode of ventriloquy introduces my most recent project in Second Life: the Raymaker Marine Environments Centre at Sky Island Bay. in this 2.1 MB download, i take the opportunity to outline the potential for powerful and novel partnerships... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website National Stadium, Singapore, 1973 - 2007 the one-hundredth-and-fourteenth episode of ventriloquy commemorates the National Stadium in Singapore. the National Stadium was recently officially closed, and will be demolished. the site will be redeveloped as the Singapore Sports Hub. i wanted to capture this landmark structure for... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "doll-houses are for wussies" the one-hundred-and-thirteenth episode of ventriloquy elaborates on the context behind this memorable quotation by Anton Brody, the manager of Maximum Minimum. this 2.4 MB download is not so much about gender-stereotyping, but is instead a consideration of the paradoxes, contradictions... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website on the trail of Red Rackham the one-hundred-and-twelfth episode of ventriloquy previews two major projects in Second Life that i'm currently working on, as Veritas Raymaker. i've decided to jump the gun in lifting the curtain for just a brief peek in this 2.1 MB download,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professor Janet H Murray's talk on 'Mind, Media and Learning' the one-hundred-and-eleventh episode of ventriloquy is a recording of a talk by Professor Janet H Murray, who is the Director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media at the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website loud as a whisper the one-hundred-and-tenth episode of ventriloquy revisits the contention held by so many (myself included, for a time) of the death of distance. i ponder the implications (yet again) on distance and place on the design of effective learning environments in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website no place like home the one-hundred-and-ninth episode of ventriloquy explores multiculturalism in Second Life. the impetus for this, is the Lion City sim - a place which anyone with an interest in Singapore can visit to get a taste of the urban landscape of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website resident alien the one-hundred-and-eighth episode of ventriloquy is a report on the first-ever live cross-Grid interaction between Teen Second Life and the Main Grid. the occasion was a visit to Global Kids Island on Teen Second Life, by Professor James Paul Gee.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website take me out to the holosuite (a.k.a. beautiful people #2) the one-hundred-and-seventh episode of ventriloquy concludes - for now - my thoughts and reflections on the recent inaugural Second Life Best Practices in Education conference. i've attempted to cover this conference through two primary means - one by blogging directly... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the death of distance, the rebirth of place, and the rediscovery of the z-axis the one-hundred-and-sixth episode of ventriloquy is one in which i share my initial learning points from my first week as Veritas Raymaker in Second Life. i have come to realise that the embodied nature of the self in Second Life... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the secret to a productive day [Flickr] voyeurism posted a photo: - Taken at 1:16 PM on May 11, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website my first geotagged pic! [Flickr] voyeurism posted a photo: - Taken at 9:03 AM on May 11, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the emperor's new clothes (a.k.a. beautiful people) the one-hundredth-and-fifth episode of ventriloquy was prompted by Eric Langhorst's podcast yesterday, in which he questions the value and place of Second Life (SL) in school curricula. join me (or is it my alter ego in SL - Veritas Raymaker)... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website testing times the one-hundred-and-fourth episode of ventriloquy focusses on assessment in education. specifically, i belatedly add my voice to the critique of Rebecca Boone's piece on how some schools are changing their views on media-players on campus. on a happier note, i... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the inaugural Royal Geographical Society - National University of Singapore Department of Geography lecture the one-hundred-and-third episode of ventriloquy is a recording of the inaugural Royal Geographical Society (RGS) - National University of Singapore Department of Geography lecture. the Vice-Chancellor of Warwick University - Professor Nigel Thrift - addressed us with a talk entitled... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve's story the one-hundred-and-second episode of ventriloquy is dedicated to the community of former residents at Clays Lane, East London. as happens too often elsewhere on the planet, they have had to make some very real sacrifices in the name of 'the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website speedbird in many ways, the one-hundred-and-first episode of ventriloquy celebrates the Best of British. join me in this 86.2 MB episode, as we reminisce about an age of jet travel long gone by - an age characterised by speed, comfort, but... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website speedbird in many ways, the one-hundred-and-first episode of ventriloquy celebrates the Best of British. join me in this 86.2 MB episode, as we reminisce about an age of jet travel long gone by - an age characterised by speed, comfort, but... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the geography of you how does one commemorate one's hundredth episode? by celebrating the sheer diversity of cultures which you - my visitors - represent. researching our various geographies in order to produce this 65.3 MB episode - my longest-ever video-episode - has truly... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website wish you were here the ninety-ninth episode of ventriloquy is inspired by the story of seven-year-old Matthew Hansen, who lives in the Falklands. prior to reading his story, i must admit that i had not given much thought to how learning and schooling take... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website notional geographic the ninety-eighth episode of ventriloquy considers citizenship in its various forms, and the roles these forms play in a differentially-globalized world. how is citizenship viewed in, for example, the United Kingdom? ... speaking of the UK (cue flawless segue), i've... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website generations what might the following have in common: a workshop on producing podcasts; the Discovery Channel; and Star Trek? when is a Chinese curse not a Chinese curse? the answers are deceptively simple. all is revealed in the ninety-sixth episode of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website what's in a game? the ninety-fifth episode of ventriloquy is precipitated by a brutally candid question from a member of the citizenship education videogame - Space Station Leonis's - target demographic. like all good questions, it prompted me to revisit some very fundamental assumptions... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website arrogance the follies of arrogance have been so apparent this past week, that they form the unfortunate inspiration behind the ninety-fourth episode of ventriloquy. it's especially irksome when a global news network who really ought to know better once again betrays... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website come fly with me the ninety-third episode of ventriloquy honours Captain Ahmedou Mohamed Lemine of Air Mauritania. his story serves as a launch pad for me to introduce you to the blog that has been set up to support and extend learning from the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website life imitates art a power failure in school prompts me to reflect, in this ninety-second episode of ventriloquy, just how much we are taking for granted in our classrooms today. the parallels are too close for comfort in digital worlds two hundred years... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Station Leonis the ninety-first episode of ventriloquy describes how an earnest question asked by a teacher during my recent workshop prompted me to realize the implicit assumptions i was making about teaching, learning, education technology in general, and the pedagogical applications of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website sharing session on podcasts, at MOE's geography coordinators' meeting the ninetieth episode of ventriloquy is a recording of a talk i gave to geography teachers, during their annual coordinators' meeting organized by the Ministry of Education (MOE), here in Singapore. it's essentially a combination of two earlier conference sessions... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website do the fish see the water? the eighty-ninth episode of ventriloquy is a critique of an article by Hannah Goff of the BBC, on technology in education. Ms Goff's article is riddled with anachronisms, FUD, myth and cliché. please do join me in this 10.4 MB... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website hyper hyper in the hours leading up to a Steve Jobs keynote, it's easy to get caught up in hype. the eighty-seventh episode of ventriloquy is my attempt at sounding a caution against buying into hype, both in the commercial, and academic,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "these are the voyages..." the eighty-sixth episode of ventriloquy pays homage to Star Trek, by pondering the connections between the Trek universe and Serious Games. it's my way of celebrating a cultural phenomenon which has had an enduring and pervasive influence on many aspects... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website lonely planet with so much news of travel disruption and chaos this long weekend, are you perhaps reading this from a location which is not actually where you had intended to be? listen to these words which are so much a part... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website lonely planet with so much news of travel disruption and chaos this long weekend, are you perhaps reading this from a location which is not actually where you had intended to be? listen to these words which are so much a part... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the gauntlet thrown 'Time' magazine's nomination of you as its Person of the Year serves as the inspiration behind the eighty-fourth episode of ventriloquy. in this 4.3 MB download, i wonder aloud if schools will be one of the last to ponder, let... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the gauntlet thrown 'Time' magazine's nomination of you as its Person of the Year serves as the inspiration behind the eighty-fourth episode of ventriloquy. in this 4.3 MB download, i wonder aloud if schools will be one of the last to ponder, let... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website blindsides the eighty-third episode of ventriloquy is inspired by Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, who now lies in a coma after being hit by a motorbike two days' ago. i consider how Professor Papert's work over the decades has impacted learning in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website blindsides the eighty-third episode of ventriloquy is inspired by Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, who now lies in a coma after being hit by a motorbike two days' ago. i consider how Professor Papert's work over the decades has impacted learning in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spore in S'pore the eighty-second episode of ventriloquy brings you some of my learning points from the Professional Day conference organized by the digital media think-tank X|Media|Lab. these points are elaborated upon and supplemented in this blog entry. the theme of the conference... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spore in S'pore the eighty-second episode of ventriloquy brings you some of my learning points from the Professional Day conference organized by the digital media think-tank X|Media|Lab. these points are elaborated upon and supplemented in this blog entry. the theme of the conference... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website book the blog, bye the book in this eighty-first episode of ventriloquy, i consider the relevance of Jay Lemke's thoughts on media, literacies and learning, in a time when we are now able to make books from blogs with a single click. i briefly consider the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website book the blog, bye the book in this eighty-first episode of ventriloquy, i consider the relevance of Jay Lemke's thoughts on media, literacies and learning, in a time when we are now able to make books from blogs with a single click. i briefly consider the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website podcasts as a tool for alternative assessment the eightieth episode of ventriloquy is a recording of a presentation on some preliminary findings from research into podcasting as a means of alternative assessment. specifically, between July and August this year, my friend and colleague - William Yeo -... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website podcasts as a tool for alternative assessment the eightieth episode of ventriloquy is a recording of a presentation on some preliminary findings from research into podcasting as a means of alternative assessment. specifically, between July and August this year, my friend and colleague - William Yeo -... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One world, two worlds, or three? Asia-Pacific geographies of hope and despair (part II) here's the concluding part of today's recording, which was held at the National Library, Singapore. this 24.8 MB download contains the views of myself and of Associate Professor Hirsch, and concludes with the discussion being open to members of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One world, two worlds, or three? Asia-Pacific geographies of hope and despair (part II) here's the concluding part of today's recording, which was held at the National Library, Singapore. this 24.8 MB download contains the views of myself and of Associate Professor Hirsch, and concludes with the discussion being open to members of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One world, two worlds, or three? Asia-Pacific geographies of hope and despair (part I) the seventy-ninth episode of ventriloquy is a recording of a panel presentation on the impact of globalization on the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, and the Mekong Delta. the discussion took place under the auspices of the International Geographical Union... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One world, two worlds, or three? Asia-Pacific geographies of hope and despair (part I) the seventy-ninth episode of ventriloquy is a recording of a panel presentation on the impact of globalization on the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, and the Mekong Delta. the discussion took place under the auspices of the International Geographical Union... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website i'm a social cognitivist the seventy-eighth episode of ventriloquy is inspired by Lansdowne Professor (applied cognitive science) Wolff-Michael Roth. my colleagues and i met him briefly yesterday, and we talked about - and experienced first-hand - notions and problems of contested identities. i was... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website i'm a social cognitivist the seventy-eighth episode of ventriloquy is inspired by Lansdowne Professor (applied cognitive science) Wolff-Michael Roth. my colleagues and i met him briefly yesterday, and we talked about - and experienced first-hand - notions and problems of contested identities. i was... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Wii, the people... " i continue to talk about the role of games in education, in this seventy-seventh episode of ventriloquy. i was especially excited to learn about 2065 - a custom-designed and locally-developed game being used by students in Chile to explore identity-construction... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Wii, the people... " i continue to talk about the role of games in education, in this seventy-seventh episode of ventriloquy. i was especially excited to learn about 2065 - a custom-designed and locally-developed game being used by students in Chile to explore identity-construction... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God's grace :-) #11 the seventy-sixth episode of ventriloquy brings you first details of my new job scope - research into a video game that i am co-developing on citizenship education. i was given the green light for this exciting change of career direction... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God's grace :-) #11 the seventy-sixth episode of ventriloquy brings you first details of my new job scope - research into a video game that i am co-developing on citizenship education. i was given the green light for this exciting change of career direction... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ungefanyaje? Kerry's lame attempt at a joke is just too good to pass up. [Reporter: "Do you need to go to joke school?" Kerry: "Sure." quoted verbatim from the good senator's very own blog] the seventy-fifth episode of ventriloquy deconstructs both... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ungefanyaje? Kerry's lame attempt at a joke is just too good to pass up. [Reporter: "Do you need to go to joke school?" Kerry: "Sure." quoted verbatim from the good senator's very own blog] the seventy-fifth episode of ventriloquy deconstructs both... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website was (not was) in this seventy-fourth episode of ventriloquy, i introduce you to someone who represents the first generation of digitally native teachers. for several years now, we've known from Marc Prensky's seminal article that "today's students are no longer the people our... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website was (not was) in this seventy-fourth episode of ventriloquy, i introduce you to someone who represents the first generation of digitally native teachers. for several years now, we've known from Marc Prensky's seminal article that "today's students are no longer the people our... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website this day in history five years ago to the day, Steve Jobs introduced the iPod. the seventy-third episode of ventriloquy joins the many other web-based commemorations of this anniversary. the occasion prompts me to ask just why certain events are remembered, while others aren't;... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the story is the story in this seventy-second episode of ventriloquy, i begin exploring the relationship between playing games and learning. specifically, i contemplate the role that role-playing might have on shaping ways of knowing and ways of being. along the way, i draw inspiration... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website the Grameen Classroom the seventy-first episode of ventriloquy honours the award of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to the Grameen Bank and its founder - Muhammad Yunus. in this 3.8 MB download, i try to draw parallels between the principles and characteristics of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website watershed, icon or cool potato? Chek Jawa as a case-study of public-private partnership in Singapore in this seventieth episode of ventriloquy, i bring you a recording of a talk given by the president of the Nature Society of Singapore - Dr Geh Min - on how the littoral zone of Chek Jawa on Singapore's island... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God's grace :-) #10 (a.k.a. viva voce) (part II) here is the concluding part of this morning's recording of the oral defence of my doctoral thesis. it brings you the question- and answer-session which followed my presentation to the panel of examiners. this part of the episode is 16.1... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God's grace :-) #10 (a.k.a. viva voce) (part I) the sixty-ninth episode of ventriloquy is one which i have been working towards for many years - it brings you a recording of the oral defence of my doctoral thesis in adolescent spatial cognition, here at the Nanyang Technological University,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website from the people who matter most #2 (a.k.a. the quantum classroom in action) this sixty-eighth episode of ventriloquy features the voices of students from Nanyang Junior College in Singapore, who had participated in a first-in-the-world blend of podcasts and assessment. specifically, last month, two classes of First Year Geography students (sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds)... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "time is tissue" using time as catalyst for discussion, the sixty-seventh episode of ventriloquy asks whether or not we're putting the cart before the horse in our attempts to "integrate" technology in our classrooms. i'm reminded of a political commentary i heard on... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website introducing voxpopuli the sixty-sixth episode of ventriloquy launches a project i am very proud of: i have created a wiki based on my doctoral thesis. as far as i can tell, this is somewhat of an innovation in