http://markdangerchen.net sporadic ramblings of a gamer in academia Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:27:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'll post the draft when I get a chance. It was originally a paper on expertise development in WoW, submitted to Transformative Works and Culture, a new online journal. I didn't have time to get into it as much as I wanted and turned the paper into one that highlighted ... http://markdangerchen.net/2008/12/30/working-on-paper-revision-today/ I've gotten a couple of requests for info about how I made those charts I was working on last month. Well, here's a draft of the paper I am working on, Visualization of expert chat development in WoW (draft PDF). It describes how the charts were made in greater detail. Here's ... http://markdangerchen.net/2008/12/16/visualization-paper-draft/ Raph Koster (MMOG developer, author of Theory of Fun for Game Design) is relatively prolific on his blog. Today he has a post about a post from a forum where the poster says a recruiter was told to avoid WoW players: Raph’s Website » MMOG play as a barrier to getting ... http://markdangerchen.net/2008/12/15/mmog-play-as-barrier-to-getting-a-job-rather-than-seen-as-a-bonus/ Hopefully nothing breaks outside my home and hopefully nothing breaks on my online home. :) I also changed themes... will try this one out for a while. I never liked how my old one (Stardust) made the Google Reader widget too small to read. This new theme (Fluid Blue), however, doesn't ... http://markdangerchen.net/2008/12/13/its-snowing-also-just-updated-wordpress/ Will Richardson at Weblogg-ed has a nice summary post about some other people's posts on the future of classrooms and learning, including highlights from one by Bill Farren: Weblogg-ed » Networked Learning: Why Not? What caught my eye was the pretty visual representations from Farren. eg: http://markdangerchen.net/2008/12/12/so-pretty-maps-of-networked-learning/ I took a week break after finishing a paper for submission to E-Learning. (That sounds more impressive than it is, I think... Constance S. is guest editing a games issue to come out next Spring and invited me to submit something, but what I submitted was completely out of left field, ... http://markdangerchen.net/2008/12/07/a-bunch-of-short-game-reviews/ (via 10 Geekiest Graffiti - Oddee.com) http://markdangerchen.net/2008/12/04/1043/ Wrath of the Lich King. Yes, that means when I quit back in Jan, it didn't stick. Well, it stuck until Science Magazine held a conference *in* WoW on convergence culture back in May [1, 2, 3]. I resubscribed for that, but then kept the subscription and switched servers to play ... http://markdangerchen.net/2008/12/04/i-bought-the-wow-expansion/ GLS 5.0, the annual conference on games and learning held at Madison, WI, is a fun almost-unconference. Lots of new media, games, anthropology, education, learning sciences, k12 teachers, etc. folk will be there.This time it looks like it moved up a month: June 10-12 instead of mid-July. Also, they are ... http://markdangerchen.net/2008/12/04/the-website-for-games-learning-society-50-is-up/ I'm finding myself using Twitter more often these days, doing status updates rather than longer blog posts... and since I also just share items I find on the web using google reader, I am not really posting cool web stuff I find, either. Most of the stuff I've been posting ... http://markdangerchen.net/2008/12/03/twitter-and-google-reader/