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Interesting read.

http://insight.eun.org/shared/data/pdf/final_literature_review_(gis).pdf

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As I'm sure you're all aware by now - I'm half way between home and abroad, trying to get work done as I attempt to move everything I own to an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - which is proving to be a task more difficult than I had previously assumed.

In any case, my Youtube channel is now up and running, although there's not a heck of a lot in there just yet. Some of the content from Wrath of the Lich King would be better served in a narrated slideshow, so, once I get that amassed, that is where I will be delivering my comments on WOTLK.

Both of the WOTLK videos have been uploaded to www.matthewwhite.ca, so be sure to hop over there and sign up.

Check out the channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/WhiteMatthew and make sure to subscribe!

Cheers.

My name is Bonnie Bracey Sutton. I have been teaching using games in all of my entire teaching career. During the No Child Left Behind Initiative, those of us who used games, innovation, constructivism , and imagination were summarily dismissed in education and blocked out of most conversations, conferences and collaborations except in SuperComputing which looks at the ideas of serious games. Sensing a new permission, I am entering this arcade as a new beginning , and a new learning initiative to share with teachers like me who share a passion for the use of games in the classroom, and games as a passport to those who may believe they don't like technology.

This year, I am piloting a paperless classroom. Indeed, in just three days of school I have saved over a ream of paper. One of the things I also want to do is to have students create simulations using game development software.

So where are the games? This is a project about building educational games right? Well, the archived site GTT has a few juicy morsels I'd like to play with, but there are no links to any of the games on that or this newer site (with the exception of Revolution). Are these projects just so much vaporware, like the rest of the software world? There should be a big "download here" button for each game or else a "projected release: June 2008" and a "contact us" on every game page. The games can't teach if no-one can play them. I can't even seem to find out who is working on each game so I might contact them specifically or a general contact for the site.

I always found math to be a difficult subject to learn at school. I put most of my failing down to the fact I sat too close to an old fashioned pot-bellied stove. This provided a great source of warmth but also destroyed my concentration. At least I learnt to spell soporific in a written defence during a subsequent detention, but the absence of maths sense slowed the learning curve for some years. Maths was always a struggle; the pot bellied stove inflicted collateral damage but I believe the real culprit was the boring way maths was taught.

Would any of you who have developed language software for handhelds be looking for students and faculty to field test your product(s)?

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Fourth Annual Games for Health Conference 2008

May 8-9, 2008
Baltimore Convention Center
Baltimore, Maryland

Web site for registration: www.gamesforhealth.org

The Games for Health Conference offers a rich platform for learning, promotion, networking and business development for organizations interested in the intersection between games and health. Topics to be covered include exergaming, medical simulation, interactive messaging, health behavior change, medical informatics, physical therapy and game development.

More than 300 individuals from 100 organizations—academic institutions, government agencies and foundations—are expected to attend.

Also, a pre-conference event on May 7 will offer two workshops: Games Accessibility and Virtual Worlds & Health.

I am starting today. So I am going to plans some materilas to post here.