Comments for Old Is The New New http://www.robmacdougall.org Rob MacDougall Dot Org Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Playful Historical Thinking by The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Follow-up on Playful Historical Thinking Class Experiment | Play The Past http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2010/03/playful-historical-thinking/#comment-22384 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Follow-up on Playful Historical Thinking Class Experiment | Play The Past Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/?p=584#comment-22384 [...] experiment in classroom pedagogy, building a modern European history course around the concept of playful historical thinking. I wrote about this in a guest post for Play the Past last September, which you can and should read [...] [...] experiment in classroom pedagogy, building a modern European history course around the concept of playful historical thinking. I wrote about this in a guest post for Play the Past last September, which you can and should read [...]

]]> Comment on History and Appliances: I Love the Gilded Age by Cycling through history in virtual interactive reality | Douglas McGlynn – a wee fireside chat http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/04/history-and-appliances-1/#comment-22382 Cycling through history in virtual interactive reality | Douglas McGlynn – a wee fireside chat Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:05:08 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/04/history-appliances-i-love-the-gilded-age/#comment-22382 [...] In order to keep my promise to myself by keeping up with all of my assignments while juggling my time with my family and attempting to be somewhat sociable while trying not to be exhausted, I begin my new series of blogs for digital history and interactive design. For a far better understanding of what this course is about, Bill Turkel’s blog on designing interactive exhibits and his award-winning blogs on ‘History Appliances‘ make inspiring reading for the new digital historian or aspiring public historian or computer programmer. Rob MacDougall also provides an interesting and witty alternative to what could go wrong with this technology with history and appliances! [...] [...] In order to keep my promise to myself by keeping up with all of my assignments while juggling my time with my family and attempting to be somewhat sociable while trying not to be exhausted, I begin my new series of blogs for digital history and interactive design. For a far better understanding of what this course is about, Bill Turkel’s blog on designing interactive exhibits and his award-winning blogs on ‘History Appliances‘ make inspiring reading for the new digital historian or aspiring public historian or computer programmer. Rob MacDougall also provides an interesting and witty alternative to what could go wrong with this technology with history and appliances! [...]

]]> Comment on Who Would Win? by Three More Half-Baked Ideas - THATCamp Games http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2010/03/a-demonstration/#comment-22381 Three More Half-Baked Ideas - THATCamp Games Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:38:15 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/?p=609#comment-22381 [...] other forms of play? What can we learn from the action figure playset, or arguments about “who would win?“, or the “barely games” we play in our heads on car trips, at bus stops, standing [...] [...] other forms of play? What can we learn from the action figure playset, or arguments about “who would win?“, or the “barely games” we play in our heads on car trips, at bus stops, standing [...]

]]> Comment on This Sentence Has Five Words by Andrew http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2010/09/this-sentence-has-five-words/#comment-22377 Andrew Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:58:51 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/?p=832#comment-22377 Hilarious and wonderful. Thank you! Hilarious and wonderful. Thank you!

]]> Comment on The Medium is the Message by max http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2005/12/the-medium-is-the-message/#comment-22376 max Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:48:22 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/new/?p=49#comment-22376 I´m spiritist and medium, and to those whoes don´t belive pay atention to your dream when someone close to us dies. What most of the people dream with the gone spirit is the prove of life after death. Wants proves? type SPIRITISM, CHICO XAVIER, or ABRAHAM LINCOLN SPIRITIST. peace from South America... I´m spiritist and medium, and to those whoes don´t belive pay atention to your dream when someone close to us dies. What most of the people dream with the gone spirit is the prove of life after death. Wants proves? type SPIRITISM, CHICO XAVIER, or ABRAHAM LINCOLN SPIRITIST. peace from South America…

]]> Comment on The Medium is the Message by Mike http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2005/12/the-medium-is-the-message/#comment-22375 Mike Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:32:51 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/new/?p=49#comment-22375 I think all these mediums are fake. I am sure they are trying to fools of people. Just it is stupid to believe in such things. IMHO. I think all these mediums are fake. I am sure they are trying to fools of people. Just it is stupid to believe in such things. IMHO.

]]> Comment on Auld is the Lang Syne by David - Pediatrician Schooling http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2010/12/auld-is-the-lang-syne/#comment-22374 David - Pediatrician Schooling Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:55:12 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/?p=865#comment-22374 Sometimes you need to disconnect from the world to reconnect with yourself, with silence, with the present, with your own center, to be able to see the meaningful life, to return to "live"... See you on the way... Sometimes you need to disconnect from the world to reconnect with yourself, with silence, with the present, with your own center, to be able to see the meaningful life, to return to “live”…

See you on the way…

]]> Comment on Toys Not Games by Hip to be Square | A Matter of Degrees http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2010/05/toys-not-games/#comment-22373 Hip to be Square | A Matter of Degrees Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:13:20 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/?p=750#comment-22373 [...] been spending a lot of time in the course so far talking about the idea of unstructured play (and how many of us, myself included, can’t always shake the feeling that we ought to be [...] [...] been spending a lot of time in the course so far talking about the idea of unstructured play (and how many of us, myself included, can’t always shake the feeling that we ought to be [...]

]]> Comment on This Sentence Has Five Words by D. http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2010/09/this-sentence-has-five-words/#comment-22371 D. Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:41:17 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/?p=832#comment-22371 "It’s like a stuck record" has six words. Now try writing a sentence with a number of unmarked parentheses, notes and digressions and see if you can make it readable and euphonious. “It’s like a stuck record” has six words.

Now try writing a sentence with a number of unmarked parentheses, notes and digressions and see if you can make it readable and euphonious.

]]> Comment on This Sentence Has Five Words by Heather http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2010/09/this-sentence-has-five-words/#comment-22370 Heather Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:36:27 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/?p=832#comment-22370 That was heady! That was heady!

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