Play to Learn to Play

This blog was sent from my phone as a test. As someone interested in educational technology I look at a lot of different hardware and software. The iPhone is the first mobile technology that I have got really excited about. It can have a similar impact as the DS.

I’ve been very keen on blogs in the past couple of years, though I haven’t been very successful at updating them. At UUC we have a games research blog and a student game development blog (both named creative computing) and I decided to use blogs as the focal point for these groups because – in theory – they would be refreshed more frequently than a more traditional website. I recently got round to setting up my own research home-site and I used an ASP.NET open source blog engine on my own hosted Windows server space, partly because I wanted to learn about the technology and have the option to modify the site in code. This WordPress blog “Play2Learn2Play” is hosted on a Linux based server which utilizes php and mysql. I wanted to learn about this technology as well but the idea also is that this site will host my research and teaching blog whereas darrylcharles.com will hold more static information about my work. Let’s hope I don’t end up with more blogs than posts