Big Basket of Stuff #2...in which even amnesiacs can remember games...students get connected and wikis get adopted..

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Readers should get game-literate - Far from spelling the end of proper storytelling, video games point towards its future: "When the popular novel was as new an idea as video games, the great and good were certain, as they were with early cinema, that no sophistication could come from this prose business, especially the sort of filth Samuel Richardson scribbled about."

Replaying the Game: Hypnagogic Images in Normals and Amnesics: " Robert Stickgold caused 17 different people to have the same dream. In doing so, he added to evidence that the purpose of sleep is to process information -- to take the jumble of a day's events, filter it, and send important impressions to the brain's memory centers. (Tetris Effect)

Special Reports 10 Emerging Technologies 2008 (Technology Review): ..includes Offline Web applications, Connectomics, and reality mining.

Connected: The Movie: "What might a university look like with a fully deployed program of converged devices like the iPhone? Connected is one possible vision. This fictional day-in-the-life account highlights some of the potential benefits in a higher education setting when every student, faculty, and staff member is "connected." Though the applications and functions portrayed in the film are purely speculative, they're based on needs and ideas uncovered by our research - and we've already been making strides to transform this vision of mobile learning (mLearning) into reality."

The Top 10 Free Educational Video Games (John Rice)

Game programming tools (Tony Forster )

21 days of Wiki Adoption (Stewart Mader)

Wikis at Work: Benefits and Practices by Jeanne C. Meister: "According to a Gartner forecast, 50 percent of U.S. corporations will have implemented wikis by 2009. And they’ll only grow in interest as more “Net generation” employees enter your company."

99 Sites ALL Designers Must Know About

Web Game Builder: "...your best resource on the Internet for learning how to create your own online games. Whether you are here to participate in our forums, read a tutorial or you want to join our community game development project, webgamebuilder.com has something to offer."

This graphical history of Sharepoint made me dizzy (Sam Lawrence): "I know I talk about Frankensuites all the time but rarely do I get to peer into the belly of one and see the mania."

Retiring Baby Boomers + Gen X/Millenials + Technology=Virtual Mentoring?: "It occurs to me this morning that with the impending wave of retiring Baby Boomers and a mounting need for Gen X and Millenials to receive ongoing guidance, technology-enabled mentoring might fill a real gap."