Author Archives: theirishduck

At a very simple level, storytelling and instructional design and have some common elements; like planning, research, and content creation all of which can be utilized for effectively developing an experience for the audience. Storytelling offers a way for all concerned how to really understand what they are building and the audience that they areContinue reading “Storytelling”

For those not in the know, I started a new job just recently with a wellbeing based company. Now first impressions, most people I know would cringe at the words, insurance and wellbeing etc, but honestly, this place is so relaxed and happy and I like their attitude towards peoples lives and values. Also, IContinue reading “New Starter Reflections”

I was in EB the other day and I noticed that the current state of the gaming market place is a sad state of affairs when it comes to the realm of educational kids games. If you do somehow even manage to find them, they most likely be on the bottom shelf, pushed off toContinue reading “Houston….we have a problem”

Back in high school, I did the musical Little Shop of Horrors. Sure, it wasn’t a movie everyone flocked to the theaters to see in ’86, but from my experience, all my mates love it too, young me must have watched at least 100 times, planted in front of the TV. In fact, I think it wasContinue reading “Suddenly Seymour……”

As we all know video games have become especially popular with the younger generations (Y, Z etc.), including mine (X) of society. As those regular readers of my blog would know, I believe that games help users problem solve in situations that we’re not normally familiar with. This is especially true of modern games. These haveContinue reading “Game Based Learning”

Last week I heard from my first professional mentor, filling him in on the past few years of life. Though we’ve kept in touch (and have sent a few emails) over the years, it is hard to get a face-to-face conversation with a person you look up to. Also doesn’t help that he lives interstate. FromContinue reading “Mentoring”

I spend a lot of time remembering and reading about the video games I played while growing up, mostly because it’s the closest I can come to actually playingthem again, until the magical day arrives when I have an entire room in my house dedicated to housing a classic arcade and console collection, but I totallyContinue reading “Atari memories”

For a while now, some educators would claim that the textbook as we know it, is dead. Apple’s iPad Mini/iBooks Author event last year suggests we are definitely closing in on the deal. I will not talk about the viability of the iPad as a textbook replacement in the world of shrinking budgets, instead I’ll focusContinue reading “iBooks Reflection”

As most of you know, there is a big buzz about HTML5 at the moment and there are some really cool people doing some really cool things with it including us at work. The so called “Flash killer” was discussed as a long term replacement for the Flash based solutions we have been making atContinue reading “HTML5 Thoughts”

It was lazy evening about three years ago when my wife and I decided to watch the film “Whip It”, particularly because my wife is a big fan of Drew Barrymore.  Throughout the movie, I could see that my wife was thoroughly entertained, but there was something else lurking behind her visage.  Little did IContinue reading “My life as a roller derby husband”