Gaming across the curriculum: Finding and evaluating educational games.
This post shares resources from Trevor and my games workshop at ISTE 2010. We kicked the workshop off with a brief talk. Here are the slides for that short presentation. ISTE Gaming Presentation View...
View ArticleBYOL JASON Project
Hello! Below are the videos and slides used during the Chmiel/ Harrison talk at ISTE 2010 during the Bring your own laptop session on Wednesday, June 30. Integrating JASON Games View more presentations...
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Review: Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson
The first book I picked up at SPX this year was Box Office Poison, because the man staffing the Top Shelf table totally knew how to sell to me. I forgot what he said, I just know that I quickly parted...
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We did it!
We had a successful campaign on Kickstarter! That calls for a Pool Party with the Gods:
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The Scale of things
This amazing flash animation will take you from the farthest reaches of the galaxies to down into quantum foam, the theorized fabric of the universe. It includes stops along the way: Central Park,...
View ArticleMy Ed Tech Dissertation Proposal in Prezi
This semester, I’m enrolled in a doctoral proposal course. The purpose of the course is to help students about to defend their dissertation proposal with a community of critical readers. It is a great...
View ArticlePresentations for my game design class
I’ve been teaching a week-long course for middle school students from around Northern VA for part of the middle school tech institute that runs every summer at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science...
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Why I love teaching but can’t go back
A few weeks ago I completed a week-long summer school class for rising 8th and 9th graders in video game design. I hadn’t taught that age group for nearly ten years but it was an incredibly enjoyable...
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Learning about the game: designing science games for a generation of gamers
I’m excited to announce that a new essay I wrote, Learning about the game: designing science games for a generation of gamers, is up in Online First for the Journal Cultural Studies of Science...
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