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Players see how politicians use the redistricting process to select their voters - wow! Political Science Research Advisor: Kareem Crayton, Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science, USC Gould School of Law, kcrayton [at] law [dot] usc [dot] edu, http://law.usc.edu/ - created at the USC Game Innovation Lab - part of the USC School of Cinematic Arts', Interactive Media Division. It was developed for the USC Annenberg Center for Communications by the following people: Lead Game Designer and Project Lead, Chris Swain, Assistant Professor, Co-Director, EA Game Innovation Lab, Interactive Media Division, USC School of Cinema-Television, cswain [at] cinema [dot] usc [dot] edu, http://interactive.usc.edu/research/games "The game provides a basic introduction to the redistricting system, allows players to explore the ways in which abuses can undermine the system, and provides info about reform initiatives - including a playable version of the Tanner Reform bill to demonstrate the ways that the system might be made more consistent with tenets of good governance. Beyond playing the game, the web site for The Redistricting Game provides a wealth of information about redistricting in every state as well as providing hands-on opportunities for civic engagement and political action."

"Goblin Threat" in Flash by Snowden Library, Academic Center (570) 321-4053 Credits: The Goblin Threat game was created by Mary Broussard with assitance on question writing from Jessica Urich. Inspiration came from Dream Chronicles (available for purchase), and escape games such as Escape Artist. Almost all sound effects from Free Sound Project... see more at http://www.lycoming.edu/library/instruction/tutorials/gtCredits.html hmmmm - seems more like an illustrated quiz than a game to me

Drama in the Delta, Digitally Reenacting Civil Rights Performances at Arkansas' Wartime Camps for Japanese Americans 3D digital role-playing game reconstructing the 2 US concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II - players navigate two levels of racial segregation to experience rebellious performances from judo combat and blues music to kabuki plays and drag shows Project Directors: Dr. Emily Roxworthy (Theatre and Dance, University of California, San Diego) and Amit Chourasia (Head of Visualization Services Group, San Diego Supercomputer Center) Other universities involved: undergraduates from MIT and UC-SanDiego graduate students from UC-SanDiego historians from U Cincinnati, UVa, King's College (London), U Arkansas-LittleRock, UC-SanDiego

Mike James urges programmers to adapt gaming techniques to allow the regular-Joe academic expert to include a simulation quickly and easily into a learning experience (instead of videotaping them as they present it via words or pre-produced visuals)

Free quiz generator for any not-for-profit use; Flash-based; 3 different quizzes (a) for whiteboard/projector use, (b) mini quiz with reading text, e.g., mini-webquest, (c) mini-quiz to be added to an existing page

Should I use this generator to build the copyright crash course? It's Flash-based so won't work on iPad/Touch/Phone, right?

Blog entry that describes the Rice University's math department page of math resources that are free - look also at the related blog entries... loads more free resources there.