I came across the most insightful review so far done on my book from Professor Keith Martin of the Royal Holloway University of London, the Information Security Group.
Tag: publications
The Educational Technology Site book review
The Educational Technology Site: ICT in Education have done a rather nice review on my book ‘Virtual Shadows’. You need to scroll down to find it. This is interesting if you are a teacher as you will appreciate a review from the eyes of a teacher.
Interview by blogger IDG.se
I should have mentioned this before, especially for my Swedish visitors, that Magnus Penker an official blogger of IDG.se posted an interview with me about my book on his blog “Shift happens” 🙂
Virtual Shadows review
hi friends, just a reminder that if you’ve read the book Virtual Shadows don’t forget to leave feedback on amazon, this helps book ratings, and of course if the feedback is positive, more people will be encouraged to buy. I want as many as possible to read my book, not only because of book success, but because the book content is so useful for each one of us. Of course it is great as an author to have this opportunity to share what is in my head. This makes me feel that I have made a useful contribution society.
You will find in the BOX on this page a file called Virtual Shadows Index. This is the .pdf index of the book that you can take a look at. Later it will be possible to ‘look inside’ my book on amazon, but apparently this functionality takes a few weeks to get activated.
David Lacey likes my book!
The book launch that happened yesterday went very well. It was a great pleasure to find David Lacey there who has made a very nice posting on his blog concerning my book in ComputerWeekly.com.
David has also just published a book (Managing the Human Factor in Information Security
On my way home I also got distracted by my new gadget, my Sony digital reader that I purchased at the airport. Well if David has one, I want one too 🙂
Book launch on Monday Central London
Hi, just a reminder, my book launch is on Monday in Central London starting at 1730. Really hope to meet you in the person if you happen to be around. More details.
The book arrived on Tuesday
It’s been a really busy week, but the highlight was Tuesday when the postman arrived with my book. The BCS have done a good job. Hence after a long, tough day, Tuesday evening was party-time!
Virtual Shadows – offical book launch event 26th January 2009
Official book launch event details for my book Virtual Shadows can be found on the BCS website at the following url http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.23621. The event is on 26th January in Central London. Hope to see some of you there!
Saving lives in a virtual world
I just love this article from bbc news that Hannah sent me. It gives an insight in how Second Life is used for learning, it’s not just a game. In my book I have written quite some stuff here.
“Imagine if we were to use the concept of virtual worlds more as a learning aid or experimental tool, to have the ability to get out of ourselves and see the world through the eyes of somebody else. Imagine if children were to learn history and geography by interacting with a virtual world in addition to learning the dates and facts from a textbook. Would this not help us to become better people who are less judgemental and open to new ideas?”
OK maybe I’m dreaming here, always the optimist but what the hell, what have we got to lose by trying. If using virtual worlds as a tool to enable us to understand better real life problems, seems a pretty good idea to go there actually, check it out, try and understand all this hype, what are people talking about. What do you think?
Publishing a book is hard work
I am on the last legs of getting this book out, and I thought that writing a book was a challenge, I must add that just getting through the publishing part with copy-editing and more is painful 🙁
Here am I expecting to have this book finished this by end of September when I could focus on my MBA, and instead I am still working on the final edits on the book -every weekend, the whole weekend, and studying for my MBA inbetween. I have prioritised the book, and just trying to get the minimum effort possible with this part of the MBA, I can throw myself more into this later for excellence.
Good news is that we are on time to get the book out beginning of December. Bad news is that I just don’t have a life right now, although I guess many who know me could argue that I never have 😉
Now enough griping, back to the book!