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Zebra’s Out of the Bag!

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Two years ago, Allen Interactions showed Zebra publicly for the first time, at ASTD ICE. By sheer dumb luck, I was there. So were Diane Elkins and Desiree Ward, the owners of the company I now work for. I’ve been experimenting with Zebra in its various incarnations ever since, and recently have been working on Zebra resources for instructional designers for our E-Learning Uncovered website.

Yesterday, I (and I don’t know who else) received word that we can talk about it publicly, which I’ve been eager to do for quite a while. My first post on Zebra is live on the E-Learning Uncovered blog now, and there will be more over the next few weeks.

I look forward to your thoughts!

Spent

Posted on by Judy Unrein
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On the off chance you haven’t heard about this already, go right now to http://playspent.org/ and play Spent, a serious game about surviving for one month on your last $1000. (I managed to end the month with over $300, but no cell phone, no gas, and needing an $800 dental surgery.)

This game informs, educates, and persuades, and here’s another thing I really like:

Except for the randomization and some multimedia, this game could be created in PowerPoint. And shocker… it’s not the randomization or the multimedia that give the game its impact.

A great serious game. Props to Urban Ministries of Durham and McKinney.

Free Stuff Tuesday (1/18/11 Edition)

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Don’t you love how that implies that every Tuesday, I’m going to post free stuff? C’mon people, have we just met? That probably won’t happen.

But here are some free things today, just to make your Tuesday awesome for a reason other than it’s not Monday:

25 New Free High-Quality Fonts from Smashing Magazine

AND… yourfonts.com is having another day of making unlimited free handwriting fonts, in celebration of National Handwriting Day on 1/23/11. Just use coupon code CPN2011FUN on 1/23/11.

(I just thought they should really pay me for sending people to their site and guess what? They have an affiliate program. So using that link will now pay me a few bucks… except when you use their site on a free font day. But do it anyway…  I love mine and anything is better than Comic Sans in your courses.)