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Satire as only South Park can accomplish -- I found the "Blizzard Board" scene especially funny. A colleague and I were discussing yesterday if a Second Life avatar could come down with the plague. The end of the world. of warcraft. :)

Fun video regarding dogs and their multiplying in Minecraft. You also get to look around at one of my worlds in the game. This is more fun than anything. This really shows how you get involved in the game and what is happening. I was laughing when I said, "they like to go outside." Really? Ha, they are pixels!

Just in time for Halloween, courtesy of the History Channel, and interactive online game that involves reading, strategy, problem-solving, critical thinking, and following directions -- as well as being immersive!

"A new way to manage classroom instruction is slowly creeping into the world of education: " Gamification ". Gamifying simply means turning the class content and the way students learn into a game with a rewards system, quests, experience levels, and healthy competition." This page is more useful for K-12 educators, but there are a LOT of resources that will still be helpful for post-secondary educators as well. This is more of a list of resources and definitions than any kind of critical discussion or a list of practical suggestions, but it's still very useful.

The difference between Gamification, Sims and Serious Games explained.

A little dry for my head, but some of the discussion in this paper is very interesting. The research and resources are fairly recent, which makes for some good link-chasing, too!