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Richard Smyth

Deconstructing 'You've Got Blog' (book version; Joe Clark: fawny.org) - 0 views

  • A blog is a form of exteriorized psychology. It’s a part of you, or of your psyche; while a titanium hip joint or a pacemaker might bring technology inside the corporeal you, a Weblog uses technology to bring the psychological you outside of it. Your Weblog acts as a new limb, a new mouth, and a new hemisphere of the brain. Once those new organs come into being, you’re no more likely to remove or amputate them than the original organic equipment they augment. I continue to write Weblogs – not for money, not for renown, not for anyone but myself.
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      This sounds so much like Ulmer's presentation of technology as a "prosthesis" for a "natural or organic human potential."
  • A blog is a form of exteriorized psychology. It’s a part of you, or of your psyche; while a titanium hip joint or a pacemaker might bring technology inside the corporeal you, a Weblog uses technology to bring the psychological you outside of it. Your Weblog acts as a new limb, a new mouth, and a new hemisphere of the brain. Once those new organs come into being, you’re no more likely to remove or amputate them than the original organic equipment they augment. I continue to write Weblogs – not for money, not for renown, not for anyone but myself.
  • A blog is a form of exteriorized psychology. It’s a part of you, or of your psyche; while a titanium hip joint or a pacemaker might bring technology inside the corporeal you, a Weblog uses technology to bring the psychological you outside of it. Your Weblog acts as a new limb, a new mouth, and a new hemisphere of the brain. Once those new organs come into being, you’re no more likely to remove or amputate them than the original organic equipment they augment. I continue to write Weblogs – not for money, not for renown, not for anyone but myself.
Richard Smyth

Gamasutra - News - Shade, and the future of interactive fiction on the App Store - 1 views

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    about Plotkin's recent iOS app for SHADE...
Richard Smyth

How mainstream video games are being used as teaching tools | eSchool News - 1 views

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    What do you think will be the WAAAAAY OF THE FUUUUTUUURREEE: educational games or creating lesson plans around mainstream games (the better question may be, how these things will manifest)?
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    Schooling is already a game. Point systems, frequent feedback, rewards. The first step is to recognize that. Second step is to use technology to implement on smaller scales, by which I mean minute to minute instead of week to week or semester to semester(which we see here). Honestly it is done already in kindergarden with the stars on the board acting as a leaderboard. I am confused as to why that is abandoned after graduating to 3rd or 4th grade(we "grow out" of one of the best forms of motivation?!). Gamifying schools is a matter of refinement not overhaul. The question to me is what should be rewarded.
Richard Smyth

How to engage girls with gaming | eSchool News - 0 views

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    subtitle: "Interactive educational games that are collaborative and focus on 'social good' can boost girls' participation, experts say"
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    This is a good follow-up to our discussion last night regarding how schools are trying to incorporate gaming to make them more relevant/engaging... subtitle of article is "Interactive educational games that are collaborative and focus on 'social good' can boost girls' participation, experts say."
Richard Smyth

BBC News - Video game success may be in the mind, study finds - 0 views

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    a good argument for buying an XBOX or Wii?!!!
loudon stearns

Dan Pink on teaching - 2 views

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    Our educational system is outdated and needs to change. Who will be the next leader? What will the new system be?
Amy DePaola

Could an MIT Alumna Be the First Female in the NFL? - 0 views

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    Not only is this amazing news but Lauren Silberman is conducting research at MIT about how athletes playing games helps them perform better.
Richard Smyth

A new era for video games - The Boston Globe - 4 views

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    This article mentions an example of a "persuasive game"
Richard Smyth

The Majestic Game, Interactive Media Environments, and a New Turing Test: Blurring the ... - 0 views

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    by Damian Ward Hey
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    I read about this in Henry Jenkins' "Game Design as Narrative Architecture" in FIRST PERSON.
Megan Trinrud

Iron Man 2 Interactive Trailer - 0 views

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    I just thought this was interesting - an interactive movie trailer. I heard somewhere that the new Robin Hood movie will also have one. Kind of fun to play around with - thought I'd share!
Richard Smyth

Chinatown community meeting features video game - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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    the work of Emerson prof Eric Gordon
Richard Smyth

The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future - 0 views

  • We can't see how the street is immersed in a twitching, pulsing cloud of data. This is over and above the well-established electromagnetic radiation, crackles of static, radio waves conveying radio and television broadcasts in digital and analogue forms, police voice traffic. This is a new kind of data, collective and individual, aggregated and discrete, open and closed, constantly logging impossibly detailed patterns of behaviour. The behaviour of the street.
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    "the street is immersed in data..." see also reference to Adam Greenfield, author of EVERYWARE (one of the readings for the panel presentations).
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