Tag: Games/Gaming
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Couple interesting games
Found these talking to my younger relatives this weekend – Pivot and Whizzball.
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New Innovate Online – MMORPGs or MMOGs as they are called now it seems.
Michael Young, P. G. Schrader, and Dongping Zheng have an article in the new Innovate that uses ecological psychology to explain how these massive online games can be used for learning. This idea (grossly and perhaps erroneously simplified) suggests that experience is the greatest teacher and most learning occurs in-situ. I believe this to be…
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Game Studies Research Findings – GDC 2006
I was looking at stuff from GDC 2006 and found some interesting resources – Research Findings, Avant Game and Avant Game Blog. Take a look at some the resources. Some of them are applicable to education and transferring game, mainly when you are adding a feature, be it to a game or a lesson, be…
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Monday Afternoon – Network fun and hallway talk
This afternoon, I was supposed to go to a session talking about girls, Internet use and Turkey (Yavuz Inal,). These all play together in a cultural context. While I was heading over there, I met up with another person that was heading in the same direction and we started talking about the session that we…
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Sim school (Melanie Zibit, David Gibson, Bill Halverson)
I decided to try to make notes for this conference on my phone and then use Bluetooth to send them over to the laptop for final prep before I post them online. It seems that even though it’s a bit slower, I’m taking down the important points, as opposed to everything when I’m typing. It’s…