Mind Meld: Micro Collaboration Between E Learning Designers And Instructor Experts by Jon D. Aleckson My rating: 2 of 5 stars A bit conflicted about this book. On the one hand there are some elements of sage advice in here, but the book has a few failings for my liking: 1. There is barely any cited evidence here (the references list is just 2 pages), and most 'evidence' seems to

The Jackal's Trick by John Jackson Miller My rating: 4 of 5 stars Hey! The unsung had been played all along by external forces! Well, I guess this is what you get when a society discommendates several generations of their citizens for whatever reason. Also, Kahless is alive because...he's Kahless ;-) A fun read. Looking forward to the third part. View all my reviews

Another one of my quick-runs through xbox 360 games to get a sense of the story and the game.  This one is Capcom's Operation Racoon City, which is a game that falls into the Resident Evil franchise. I think this game did multiplayer co-op much better than Crackdown 2. I played the campaign part of this game back in January of this year. From what I can see you can only play this game

Another really quick review of an xbox 360 game that isn't backwards compatible to the xbox one that I did a quick run through in December of 2018.  This time the game is the Legend of Korra on the xbox 360 (I am surprised that it's not backward compatible!) I know that this is based on a cartoon, which I haven't watched.  But it is a brawler so it looked like fun.  The game resorts

Back in December of 2018, another game that I tried to play through on my 360 before I packed it away was Crackdown 2 (funny thing is that after I completed it it became backward compatible...)  So here is a brief review of Crackdown 2 on the xbox 360: As you can see from my gamerscore, I didn't really go after all of the achievements. Part of the reason is that the achievements were (like

Καλό μας μήνα λοιπον!  Ήρθε και ο Σεπτέμβρης, και μαζί με τον Σεπτέμβρη έρχεται το τέλος του καλοκαιριού και η νέα σχολική χρονιά στο πανεπιστήμιο (την ερχόμενη εβδομάδα). Φέτος εύχομαι επιτέλους να τελειώσω με αυτή την

Back in November of 2018 I tried out a game called "Dark" on my xbox 360. I had been going on a binge of games that are not backwards compatible to the xbox one, so I thought I'd give this a try. The reviews for this game were bad...quite bad! (Metacritic score of 38%).  But the price was right (next to free...) and the concept seemed like an interesting concept: The game follows

Hell's Heart by John Jackson Miller My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book had me reacting out loud while I was listening to it. It was a rather interesting story of succession in the house of Krug (from Star Trek IV), and a rather interesting tale of discommendated, and what happens when the children of those who are no longer considered part of the community refuse to accept a system

Defiance:The Essential Guide by Syfy My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was reminded of this ebook while rewatching Defiance this summer. This was a "getting to know the world of Defiance" sort of book.  I think it mostly focused on the TV show, even though Defiance was originally envisioned as a transmedia type of franchise (with the eponymous MMO still running/limping along to this

Star Trek vs. Transformers by John Barber My rating: 3 of 5 stars Another cross-over, this one a bit more recent I think compared the DC Legion of Superheroes one I read.  An interesting Star Trek: The Animated Series cross-over with Transformers. A bit campy for my tastes, but if you view it from an animated series perspective it ain't half bad. I guess Transformers is now