Halo

This video game may generate more revenue than your favorite movie.

I love video games. Many folks my age don't get it. From an economic view, the revenues are huge and the profit margins are probably better than movies. You won't see a video character holding up production because he's doing another movie, in rehab, or wants more money for the sequel.

What you will see is an interactive story telling genre that allows the participants to be a major part of the happenings. If you wanted to be James Bond, now you can!

Looking forward, video games provide a strong signal of where we can go with education. If we create learning that allows kids to have an active role, the information is more likely to stick with them. The challenge for the educational and technology communities is to come together and find appropriate ways to blend lessons and technological activities. That's where conferences like NECC, CES and other educational/technology conferences are key opportunities to for these groups to better understand what they can bring to the table of learning...and hopefully how to collaborate to make learning more fun.

Hail to the Master Chief!

Halo 3 Update--$170 million revenue in US on first day. I wonder how many folks were "sick" on Wednesday???