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Learning Circuits: Cheap E-mail Games

"Quote: "Email games provide low-cost, low-tech alternatives to complex and costly approaches. The games can result in effective learning and problem solving because the technology disappears into the background. Most important, email games are built on the belief that resourcefulness has more value than resources."

Comment: Nice list of different games you can play for learning. [Serious Instructional Technology]

Interesting idea. A precursor to an education future with high-speed, always-on internet access in portable devices?

Also check out David's link to PocketClassroom:

"Quote: "PocketClassroomTM is new proprietary software developed by the Research and Development team in Information Systems at Wake Forest University. It turns a PocketPC equipped with a wireless card into a web server, a presentation controller, and a feedback device for a classroom instructor or for any speaker making a presentation to an audience. By incorporating all these functions into one program, it allows you to 'put class in the palm of your hand' as you move freely around the classroom. "

Comment: via OLDaily.  I have thought that an instant polling system would be easy to create for a classroom that had the right equipment, i.e. student computers.  I've always been leery of proprietary hardware solutions."

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