The Fiction Engine

Mar 13, 2012 Posted by Edwin

Animated Conversations

Home-made animation has come a long way from the flip-pad car crash that I painstakingly drew in the corners of a 100 page notepad back when I was eight. Hey, I lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere…how else was I supposed to pass the time? There’s nothing painstaking about home-made animation these days. Free, online tools abound. So…you’re a fan of Wal-E and Wallace and... read more

Mar 8, 2012 Posted by Edwin

Self-Teaching

A cortex-jolting talk from educational scientist, Sugata Mitra. He’s basically saying…put a group of kids in front of a computer with powerful broadband and open internet access, and they can find out or solve pretty much anything! Notice that I said group. Self-teaching seems to be a group activity. But there’s no teacher involved. Just a cooperating bunch of kids helping each... read more

Mar 2, 2012 Posted by Edwin

Pirates!

I spent a significant chunk of my youth immersed in the 17th Century Caribbean, via my Atari ST. Sid Meier’s ‘Pirates’ ranks up there in my top five games of all time. Has the current re-imagining made the cut? Is it hours and hours of piratical goodness? Yaaarrrrr! What you’re getting with ‘Pirates’ is a two-fold experience, a combo of fun and learning that you simply don’t see... read more

Feb 21, 2012 Posted by Edwin

Writing a Crime Scene Investigation

There are two ways to get good at something. You can study it and do it, or you can do it and do it. What am I talking about? In this ‘case’, learning how to create a piece of crime fiction (a crime scene investigation) by exploring crime scenes. Virtually, that is First up, let’s see where we’re headed. This is the Outcome we want you, our beloved student, to... read more

Page 1 of 1712345...10...»Last »