So, this year instead of being an instructor for the Teacher Education Program (TEP) here in the College of Education at the University of Washington (UW), I’m an RA (research assistant) for a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Science of Learning Center (SLC) called LIFE (Learning in Informal and Formal Environments). (How many acronyms can … Continue reading Spent the last four days at iSLC
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 moving to a bigger … Continue reading The website for Games Learning Society 5.0 is up
I was all set to hop onto the net and post a photo of the glorious Chicago style hotdog I just ate at Gold Coast (intersection of H and G gates in O’Hare, and gets a bad rep on Yelp). Unfortunately, the wifi that is advertised all over the place and hawked through the PA … Continue reading Chicago O’Hare and arriving in Madison
After spending a week at home, recovering from jet lag, playing some games, going to a couple of parties, and working, I’m off to another conference. This one is focused specifically on games and education and is hosted by the Games Learning Society group at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Basically, it’s the Constance and Kurt crew, … Continue reading Off to Games Learning Society in Madison, WI!
So I’m sitting in my room at the NH Centre Utrecht hotel writing this post. It’s a little after midnight, local time, which I guess means it’s like 4pm Pacific and still Monday… I’m here for a conference called ICLS 2008, the International Conference for the Learning Sciences, run by ISLS (replace “Conference” with “Society”). … Continue reading The Netherlands
expertise in World of Warcraft poster and paper – I’m presenting a poster at this year’s International Conference for the Learning Sciences as part of a bigger poster session on expertise. Basically, trying to argue that experts who get into the end-game of WoW have to relearn and adapt their expertise for the new endeavor … Continue reading Things to do in the next 8 weeks…
As I’m updating the AoIR reports, I noticed that I never posted that some of the presentations from the Games Learning Society conference back in July have been put online… But anyway, you can check out the presentation I gave (and wow, I gotta say, I need to work on coherence and relating things that … Continue reading Games Learning Society webcasts
So, uh… I didn’t actually type up notes to this lecture because I figured lots of other people would be. But then I ended up writing notes *on paper* anyways. Man, was it difficult to alternately write with a pen and chat with a stylus with Casey and TL at the same time. Anyway, my … Continue reading AoIR8 Day2: Friday’s keynote: Henry Jenkins
is available at the wiki ( http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=About_IR8.0 ) and as a downloadable PDF ( http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/AoIR2007ProgramOct11.pdf ). I skipped out on the first keynote (there’ll be one each day) by John Lester (who I think gave the same talk at GLS) to go eat dim sum at the Imperial Seafood Restaurant with a grad student named … Continue reading Oh btw… AoIR program
One thing I noticed while at GLS was that a lot of folk seemed to be talking about similar things from different angles. Here’s a list: participatory culture and new media literacy (Henry Jenkins and Alice Robison) ludic bureaucracy (Thomas Malaby) gamer mindset (Jim Gee) The common theme in all of these topics is that … Continue reading Games Learning Society wrapping thoughts