tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47284205024567929192011-07-08T00:27:29.727-07:00The Official Digital Research Platform of Edutainment & ResearchEdutainment&amp;ConvergenceResearchQuarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07694321115602641340noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4728420502456792919.post-33105169997659855452009-10-03T19:08:00.000-07:002009-10-03T19:08:54.777-07:00<a href="http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2009/10/vooks-textvideoetc-coming-to-iphone.html">Mobile Libraries: Vooks = Text+Video+Etc. &gt; Coming To An iPhone Near You ...</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4728420502456792919-3310516999765985545?l=edutainmentandconvergenceresearch.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Edutainment&amp;ConvergenceResearchQuarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07694321115602641340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4728420502456792919.post-46525228839288212862008-01-13T21:14:00.000-08:002008-01-13T22:23:28.698-08:00By Chris A. Heidelberg III, Publisher &amp; Principal Researcher<br /><br />The purpose of this electronic publication is to publish my research findings, scholarly articles, and the research findings, scholarly articles, and the implications of edutainment and convergence technology for the following: academia, government, business, privacy, learning and society as a whole.<br /><br />As I continued to expand to my research based on the contributions of the participants of my study, I began to realize that the Edutainment &amp; Convergence Today, Edutainment Today, and Edutainment and Convergence electronic publications had begun to take on their own individual identities. For example, Edutainment &amp; Convergence Today began as the official scholarly voice of edutainment and convergence, and it featured the original qualitative research interview results. However, Edutainment &amp; Convergence Today has now become a daily collection of news stories on technology, entertainment, education and entertainment with occasional in-depth commentary and research based articles.<br /><br />Edutainment &amp; Convergence has evolved into the research commentary voice of my research work, and it will begin to feature commentary and peer-reviewed articles from both practitioners and academics in multiple disciplines that discussed edutainment and convergence. It also featured the frequent use of video, picture and music as part of its design based on the research elicited from original participants.<br /><br />Edutainment Today evolved into the purely visual version of Edutainment and Convergence that utilized pictures and video primarily to tell the story of edutainment and convergence. This publication will endeavor to utilize pictures, video and written summaries of the findings obtained from participants. Its sister publications will mimic Edutainment &amp; Convergence as a commentary piece that provides more detailed findings and also provides examples and suggestions based on the findings. Edutainment and Convergence Today will also be utilized as the organ to release the findings of the study Edutainment and Convergence: How can entertainment techniques be utilized in higher education from the perspective of entertainment professionals. A purely research version of this site will also be created to report the news of other research and technologies that both support and question the findings of this study.<br />At the end of the day, I was compelled to create these purely research based versions of the site so that readers could quickly locate the findings, PowerPoints, and other content in one area other than the original sites which are now voluminous. Therefore, the creation of a new ExtenderNet for the purposes of publishing the findings seemed appropriate for this research that actually began in 2001 when I began studying convergence in 2001. I may even post some of my old work here. To be sure, these publications will utilize peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed articles. Stay tuned!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4728420502456792919-4652522883928821286?l=edutainmentandconvergenceresearch.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Edutainment&amp;ConvergenceResearchQuarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07694321115602641340noreply@blogger.com0