I met up with Josh Diaz (new to me blog!) earlier and we started talking about DnD 4th Edition. He mentioned he was starting a campaign with the MIT crowd he hangs out with (and that profs had signed up to play!) which coincides with me joining a campaign some of my friends down in … Continue reading GLS 2008 Session 4: skipped…
Online Games and Science: The Role of Gaming Technologies in the Development of Dispositions Towards Learning Melissa Gresalfi . Anna Arici Cool stuff on Quest Atlantis. 🙂 Caught the tail end of it. Resilient Planet: A Partnership of Games and Curriculum Bill Jewell, Dan White, Dan Norton, Marjee Chmiel A presentation about the work that Filament Games has done with the … Continue reading GLS 2008 Session 3: Games for Science Learning
I met up with Josh Diaz during lunch. I met Josh for the first time last year and had dinner with him at a really nice burger place. He’s on a diet this summer and not eating meat or cheese. 😛 During lunch there was a poster session, and Josh and I went around and … Continue reading GLS 2008: Lunch
After the first session I went over to the Arcade, a whole room full of consoles and computers and a bunch of games loaded up on them. Rock Band was a popular one, but I was also able to see MGS4, Viva Pinata, No More Heroes, Halo 3, Katamari Damacy, GTA IV, Wii Fit, Golf, … Continue reading GLS 2008 Session 2: Oops
Most of these sessions will be recorded and made available on the web, so I’ll just keep this really brief with my editorial comments. Also, obviously, I can only go to one session per time slot, so check out the whole GLS 2008 program when you get a chance. I’ll come back and link to … Continue reading GLS 2008 Session 1: Youth Programs for Games & Digital Media Literacy
I’ve been meaning to post photos from Saturday in Madison soon… this space reserved. [Edited Thursday… finally!] So, after a night of way too much beer…. (and I should note that when I say way too much I mean our tables had 2 pitchers courtesy of Kurt too much which basically went undrunk… undrunken.. undrinked…? … Continue reading GLS day 3 (the aftermath)
I met a ton of people for the first time at Games Learning Society. Here’s a brain dump of who I can remember (I’ll link to each of them soon… running out of steam right now… 🙁 ): Rebecca Black Samantha Blackmon Ian Bogost Ted Castranova (well, technically, we didn’t meet, but I saw him…) … Continue reading All the people I met at GLS
After the conference was over, I met up with Moses to drop my stuff off at his place since he kindly offered an air mattress for me to crash on for the night. BTW, ladies, Moses is the man. Guys, you too should know; Moses is like the coolest man in the world. Anyway, a … Continue reading GLS day 2, evening
Gaming Literacy Ah crap.. my laptop is almost out of juice. I might have to go offline for a bit and transcribe hand-written notes… gasp. [Edit:] Ok, I did indeed have to write stuff down by hand. What follows is my attempt at a transcription; sorry for the delay. Immersion vs. Learning – Michael Wagner … Continue reading GLS day 2, late afternoon
Narrative, Contingency, and Humor Narrative Engagement: Games as Mnemonic Devices for Process Learning – Jay Laird and Ann McDonald Jay and Ann are more practitioners rather than learning scientist theorists. They say that a mnemonic system can be used over and over to remember something and that players could use to remember and navigate a … Continue reading GLS day 2, early afternoon