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"Game-Based Learning: Developing an Institutional Strategy Thursday" - 3 views

www.educause.edu/...eloping-institutional-strategy gaming education
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  • Bryan Alexander on 21 Jan 13
     
    ECAR report Author(s) Rhonda M. Epper (Colorado Community College System), Anne Derryberry (Sage Road Solutions, LLC), Sean Jackson (University of Virginia)
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Apple blocks simulation game from Apps Store - 12 views

pockettactics.com/...ion-apple-denies-endgame-syria games development iOS
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  • Bryan Alexander on 09 Jan 13
     
    Should colleges create simulation games as iOS apps, if this kind of blockage can happen?
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  • Brett Boessen on 10 Jan 13
     
    Well there's always Android - I really like my Nexus 7 a lot; take it everywhere. And I've found downloading bits directly from the web for Android to be not too bothersome (the Humble Bundle folks have a workable system going).
  • Bryan Alexander on 10 Jan 13
     
    Is the Play store more open?
  • Brett Boessen on 10 Jan 13
     
    I thought it was, though I can't find any particular article attesting to that fact (maybe the respective Wikipedia pages would give a clue). But I also thought that it was not possible to install an app on an iOS device without a jailbroken phone - on Android if you have the .pks or whatever-type file on the web somewhere, you can install it, even on the standard version of Android.
  • Bryan Alexander on 11 Jan 13
     
    Sounds like a potential Play/Android advantage. Then there's the Web.
  • Brett Boessen on 11 Jan 13
     
    Yes, and especially since tablets are becoming more common, tools formatted for the web don't have to be squished onto a smartphone screen as much as they once might have been.
  • Bryan Alexander on 14 Jan 13
     
    Good point. Perhaps we'll see phones hew to apps, and tablets cleave to the Web.
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Endgame Syria - 1 views

gamethenews.net/...endgame-syria games simulation newsgame
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  • Bryan Alexander on 09 Jan 13
     
    Newsgame. Web-based, so gets around the Apps Store ban.
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» Syllabus #HIST3812 - 5 views

www.3812.graeworks.net/syllabus history syllabus games simulation digital_history digital_humanities
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  • Bryan Alexander on 08 Jan 13
     
    Very cool! "The philosophy of the core learning in this course can be summed up as, 'Hacking as a Way of Knowing'."
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All the World's a Game, and Business Is a Player - NYTimes.com - 5 views

www.nytimes.com/...-and-business-is-a-player.html gamification bullshit
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  • Bryan Alexander on 03 Jan 13
     
    Interesting. No mention of Jane McGonigal. The badges were cute.
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Creative uses of computer games - 2 views

www.popsci.com/...-great-gaming-experiments-2012 games
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  • Bryan Alexander on 03 Jan 13
     
    Nice set from 2012.
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War Games | Foreign Policy - 6 views

www.foreignpolicy.com/...war_games games gaming military war US USA
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  • Bryan Alexander on 21 Dec 12
     
    Requires login?
  • Ed Webb on 21 Dec 12
     
    Yeah. FP has gone semi-arsehole, requiring free sign-up and log-in to see their stuff. Even some of their own staff are complaining. I suspect it will go away at some point.
  • Bryan Alexander on 21 Dec 12
     
    Yikes. Well, I logged in under my Facebook hat.
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Launch Your Own Gaza War - By Michael Peck | Foreign Policy - 4 views

www.foreignpolicy.com/...launch_your_own_gaza_war game simulation Israel Gaza war military strategy
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  • Bryan Alexander on 02 Dec 12
     
    Very neat. Interesting to see that it's a solitaire game.
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Could Minecraft be the next great engineering school? - Quartz - 4 views

qz.com/...-next-great-engineering-school minecraft games education game simulation virtualworlds opinion engineering
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  • Brett Boessen on 01 Dec 12
     
    This is pretty great.
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On Game Centered Criticism | this cage is worms - 3 views

thiscageisworms.com/...on-game-centered-criticism games gaming criticism opinion
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  • Ed Webb on 29 Nov 12
     
    I can't tell whether this is a 'moment' or 'turn' in games criticism or a minor spat among more or less thoughtful people. But I like Cameron's direction here.
  • Bryan Alexander on 30 Nov 12
     
    There's a lot going on there, once you follow the links. Feels like early 20th-century lit crit.
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Nuclear power plant simulator - 0 views

esa21.kennesaw.edu/...nuke.htm simulation
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  • Bryan Alexander on 21 Nov 12
     
    Easy to start teaching tool.
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Most Gamification is Just Pointsification | The Ludus Project - 5 views

ludusproject.org/...cation-is-just-pointsification gamification
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  • Rebecca Davis on 02 Nov 12
     
    Just the title sounds true on this one--many of the gamification discussions I've heard have focused on points as incentive.
  • Bryan Alexander on 15 Nov 12
     
    That's really good. What can you do with those points?
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Gaming relativistic effects - 2 views

gamelab.mit.edu/...a-slower-speed-of-light pedagogy simulation game
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  • Bryan Alexander on 09 Nov 12
     
    Teaches player some aspects of traveling close to the speed of life.
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Why I Blog - Andrew Sullivan - The Atlantic - 4 views

www.theatlantic.com/...307060 Sullivan atlantic blogging opinion
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  • For a long time, columns were essentially monologues published to applause, muffled murmurs, silence, or a distant heckle. I’d gotten blowback from pieces before—but in an amorphous, time-delayed, distant way. Now the feedback was instant, personal, and brutal.
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      Brett Boessen on 29 Oct 12
       
      Instant Feedback -- blogging is the gamification of authorship?
  • The form was more accountable, not less, because there is nothing more conducive to professionalism than being publicly humiliated for sloppiness.
  • The blog remained a superficial medium, of course. By superficial, I mean simply that blogging rewards brevity and immediacy
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  • the key to understanding a blog is to realize that it’s a broadcast, not a publication. If it stops moving, it dies. If it stops paddling, it sinks.
  • But the superficiality masked considerable depth—greater depth, from one perspective, than the traditional media could offer. The reason was a single technological innovation: the hyperlink.
  • in reading it on paper, you have to take the columnist’s presentation of the material on faith, or be convinced by a brief quotation (which can always be misleading out of context).
  • a hyperlink to the original source transforms the experience.
  • A blog, therefore, bobs on the surface of the ocean but has its anchorage in waters deeper than those print media is technologically able to exploit.
  • The blogger
  • a node among other nodes, connected but unfinished without the links and the comments and the track-backs that make the blogosphere, at its best, a conversation, rather than a production.
  • If you compare the meandering, questioning, unresolved dialogues of Plato with the definitive, logical treatises of Aristotle, you see the difference between a skeptic’s spirit translated into writing and a spirit that seeks to bring some finality to the argument.
  • Perhaps the greatest single piece of Christian apologetics, Pascal’s Pensées, is a series of meandering, short, and incomplete stabs at arguments, observations, insights. Their lack of finish is what makes them so compelling—arguably more compelling than a polished treatise by Aquinas.
  • Montaigne was living his skepticism, daring to show how a writer evolves, changes his mind, learns new things, shifts perspectives, grows older—and that this, far from being something that needs to be hidden behind a veneer of unchanging authority, can become a virtue, a new way of looking at the pretensions of authorship and text and truth.
  • To blog is therefore to let go of your writing in a way, to hold it at arm’s length, open it to scrutiny, allow it to float in the ether for a while, and to let others, as Montaigne did, pivot you toward relative truth
  • Some e-mailers, unsurprisingly, know more about a subject than the blogger does
  • The role of a blogger is not to defend against this but to embrace it.
  • He is similar in this way to the host of a dinner party. He can provoke discussion or take a position, even passionately, but he also must create an atmosphere in which others want to participate.
  • You can’t have blogger’s block. You have to express yourself now, while your emotions roil, while your temper flares, while your humor lasts. You can try to hide yourself from real scrutiny, and the exposure it demands, but it’s hard.
  • Alone in front of a computer, at any moment, are two people: a blogger and a reader.
  • The proximity is palpable, the moment human
  • friendship
  • Bloggers can be spun and misled as easily as traditional writers—and the rigorous source assessment that good reporters do can’t be done by e-mail. But you’d be surprised by what comes unsolicited into the in-box, and how helpful it often is.
  • A good blog is your own private Wikipedia.
  • There is a distinction here, of course, between the edited use of e-mailed sources by a careful blogger and the often mercurial cacophony on an unmediated comments section. But the truth is out there—and the miracle of e-mail allows it to come to you.
  • The reason this open-source market of thinking and writing has such potential is that the always adjusting and evolving collective mind can rapidly filter out bad arguments and bad ideas. The flip side, of course, is that bloggers are also human beings.
  • You can disappear into the partisan blogosphere and never stumble onto a site you disagree with. But linkage mitigates this. A Democratic blog will, for example, be forced to link to Republican ones, if only to attack and mock.
  • If all this sounds postmodern, that’s because it is. And blogging suffers from the same flaws as postmodernism: a failure to provide stable truth or a permanent perspective.
  • To use an obvious analogy, jazz entered our civilization much later than composed, formal music. But it hasn’t replaced it; and no jazz musician would ever claim that it could. Jazz merely demands a different way of playing and listening, just as blogging requires a different mode of writing and reading.
  • The reason they talk while listening, and comment or link while reading, is that they understand that this is a kind of music that needs to be engaged rather than merely absorbed.
  • Bryan Alexander on 30 Oct 12
     
    Good one, Brett. Some people were talking about social media as gamification, in terms of checking points (hits, links) and getting rewards. Can't remember where.
  • Brett Boessen on 31 Oct 12
     
    If you think of it, drop me a line; I'd be interested to see what came of that discussion.
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A COMPUTERLESS VIDEOGAME MODDING WORKSHOP | Molleindustria - 5 views

www.molleindustria.org/...ess-videogame-modding-workshop games gaming modding
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  • Brett Boessen on 29 Oct 12
     
    Thank you, sir: we were *just* talking about not only games and rhetoric/ideology last week but several Molle Industria games in particular in my Persuasive Media class. I'm posting a quick entry on our class blog (http://acpm12.wordpress.com/).
  • Bryan Alexander on 30 Oct 12
     
    Very cool. (Molle has a blog? To the RSS reader!)
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Tell Me How This Ends - 2 views

tellmehowthisends.com game simulation
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  • Bryan Alexander on 22 Oct 12
     
    Be the President. Learn the cost of war with Iran.
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University Offers Class on Skyrim and Medieval Scandinavia | HackCollege - 2 views

www.hackcollege.com/...university-class-skyrim.html game education fun
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  • Bryan Alexander on 22 Oct 12
     
    Money isn't everything, but not having it sure can but a dent in everything. In college, your money is thin and the things you can spend it on- trips, food and drinks- are everywhere. So with that in mind, here are five ways to stretch your money further. 1.
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