Group items tagged Game - Gaming and the liberal arts

Spore as Facebook game - 0 views

www.facebook.com/Spore

shared by Bryan Alexander on 18 Nov 09 - Cached

Bryan Alexander on 18 Nov 09

Facebook games are taking off like mad this year. Anyone using 'em on campus?

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Wired Campus - U. of California at Irvine Builds 'Cyber-Interaction Observatory' - The ... - 1 views

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chronicle games gaming virtualworlds research UC Irvine virtual_world simulation education news

shared by Ed Webb on 02 Dec 09 - Cached

Formulaic play | Play The Past - 2 views

www.playthepast.org/?p=1291

games gaming opinion analysis

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Bryan Alexander on 21 Apr 11

Interesting - I'm not sure if this applies better to design or after-action narration.

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Alternate Reality Facebook Game - 1 views

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History AlternateReality

shared by Todd Bryant on 26 Apr 11 - No Cached

Todd Bryant on 26 Apr 11

Uses real historic artifacts but creates fictional dystopian future.

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Videogame lets users reenact Osama bin Laden killing - 2 views

www.inquisitr.com/...osama-bin-laden-videogame

media games gaming binLaden al-qaida

shared by Ed Webb on 03 May 11 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 03 May 11

Kumawar is still going on? This is perfect for them.

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 4 views

www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2286

games gaming future ethics

shared by Ed Webb on 24 Jun 11 - No Cached

Modding Settlers of Catan - 3 views

www.worldwatch.org/oil-discovered-island-catan

games modding boardgames

shared by Bryan Alexander on 20 Oct 11 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 20 Oct 11

Very nice, easy way to mix up a preexisting board game for classroom purposes.

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Shape Type, the letter shaping game - 4 views

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game typography html5

shared by Brett Boessen on 31 Oct 11 - No Cached

Operation MENIS: a soldier, a rhapsode, and a tragedian walk into the agora | Play The ... - 4 views

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games gaming pedagogy education classics

shared by Ed Webb on 13 Jun 11 - No Cached

Do videogames need their own version of the Bechdel test? - 2 views

www.newstatesman.com/...their-own-version-bechdel-test

games gaming gender

shared by Ed Webb on 07 Jan 14 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 13 Jan 14

Terrific idea.

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ALZ, a game about having Alzheimer's - 0 views

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game simulation

shared by Bryan Alexander on 31 Mar 14 - No Cached

Minecraft videogame should be banned, Turkey's Family Ministry concludes - LOCAL - 1 views

www.hurriyetdailynews.com/family-ministry-concludes.aspx

Turkey censorship games gaming videogames

shared by Ed Webb on 10 Mar 15 - No Cached

Random Universe Generator: Nested Is The Best Thing | Rock, Paper, Shotgun - 3 views

www.rockpapershotgun.com/...ree-procedural-generation-game

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shared by Ed Webb on 31 Jul 14 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 31 Jul 14

Now that looks like fun.

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How Videogames Like Minecraft Actually Help Kids Learn to Read | WIRED - 0 views

www.wired.com/...video-game-literacy

education game

shared by Bryan Alexander on 08 Nov 14 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 08 Nov 14

Brecht Vandenbroucke Minecraft is the hot new videogame among teachers and parents. It's considered genuinely educational: Like an infinite set of programmable Lego blocks, it's a way to instill spatial reasoning, math, and logic-the skills beloved by science and technology educators. But from what I've seen, it also teaches something else: good old-fashioned reading and...

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3rd World Farmer: A simulation to make you think. - 0 views

3rdworldfarmer.com

game simulation

shared by Bryan Alexander on 29 Jan 15 - Cached

Bryan Alexander on 29 Jan 15

"A free online game about rural poverty in developing nations."

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Mark Carnes, "Minds on Fire" - 0 views

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pedagogy game

shared by Bryan Alexander on 22 Oct 14 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 22 Oct 14

Reacting to the Past game book.

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Syrian Journey game - 0 views

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game simulation currentevents history newsgame

shared by Bryan Alexander on 02 Apr 15 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 02 Apr 15

Short newsgame simulating choices confronting Syrian refugess. "The Syrian conflict has torn the country apart, leaving thousands dead and driving millions to flee their homes. Many seek refuge in neighbouring countries but others pay traffickers to take them to Europe - risking death, capture and deportation. If you were fleeing Syria for Europe, what choices would you make for you and your family?"

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The BBC made a 'controversial' new game about Syria - Boing Boing - 0 views

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Syria newsgames games news BBC

shared by Ed Webb on 06 Apr 15 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 06 Apr 15

Did those papers freak out because of the very idea of a newsgame, or that it simulates a current conflict?

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American Abyss | Words and Games - 3 views

edwardcastronova.com/...american-abyss

politics war US USA games simulation simulations

shared by Ed Webb on 06 Oct 18 - No Cached

How to Quickly Turn a Lecture into a Game - Best Class Ever - 3 views

www.bestclassever.org/lecturegame

games how-to

shared by Joe Murphy on 06 Jan 21 - No Cached

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Bryan Alexander on 06 Jan 21

I like this as the most basic gamification exercise I've seen!

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