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Blog -
General
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Written by Lisa Galarneau
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Wednesday, 03 October 2007 |
After 3 years, I think it's time for me to officially admit that I don't have the bandwidth to keep SocialStudyGames.com going! I am in the final stretch of writing up my Ph.D. thesis and working, as well!
You can still find me blogging at Terra Nova...
I'd love to pass this site onto anyone who might be interested in maintaining it. It is built on the Mambo content management system, and the content all resides in a MySQL database. Great opportunity for a grad student who would like to make a contribution to the game studies community! It was an invaluable experience for me, certainly. I am leaving the site up, as I know a lot of people still access resources they find via Google searches (apologies if there are dead links at this point!)...
Thanks everyone!
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Papers and Articles -
Learning
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Written by Lisa Galarneau
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Friday, 13 July 2007 |
I did a talk at GLS today covering some of my research looking at online gamers and the development of 21st century skills. Unfortunately, the site is not allowing me ftp access at the moment, but I found somewhere to post them!
Let me know if you have any trouble accessing the file!
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Blog -
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Written by Lisa Galarneau
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
Yes, I know that I am a bad, awful blogger who never updates this site anymore! But I do have a few things over at Terra Nova!
If anyone else wants to blog here or add things to the repository, let me know... Mark Chen is making noises that he might help (no pressure! ;-) But if he does help, we might get a much needed facelift - that upgrade to the content management system that I have been afraid to take on for fear of breaking everything!
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Papers and Articles -
General
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Written by Lisa Galarneau
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Friday, 04 May 2007 |
Via Joystiq, a link to a Christian news program called Living the Life that features a religious author, Richard Abanes, explaining videogames to the concerned interviewers, but in a balanced, accessible way. I picked up his book What Every Parent Needs to Know about Video Games, while on vacation in Virginia. I saw it next to the check-out line at the grocery store, next to a bunch of other morality titles, and was expecting the worst. But as Joystiq reports, this fellow is really quite balanced. It's good sound advice: pay attention the ratings system, appreciate the good while acknowledging the the bad, etc. He does a good job of combating the effects argument, as well, and suggests that Christian leaders can use videogames as way to relate to youth.
Best quote: "some videogames aren't for kids' - it's amazing that this has to be said, but it's even more amazing how many parents/grandparents don't pay any attention to appropriateness.
The Abanes interview is followed by an interview with 'Dr. Linda', the resident MD who discusses addiction, depictions of gender, etc. Again, mostly common sense here. I was ready to get my pro-gaming hackles up, but there honestly wasn't much I disagreed with (aside from the general and undefined concerns about the 'occult', of course).
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Papers and Articles -
Learning
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Written by Lisa Galarneau
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
I have finally gotten around to updating my personal website with some (somewhat) recent work!
Publications:
Galarneau, Lisa (in press) Productive play: Participation and learning in digital game environments. International Journal of Advanced Technology for Learning (Digital Games Based Learning). Draft here - please do not cite.
Galarneau, Lisa and Mark Chen (in press) Play my way: The politics of cooperation in massively multiplayer online games. In Play and politics. Douglas Thomas, Joshua Fouts and Shawna Kelly (Eds.) Draft here - please do not cite.
Presentations (from last year!):
Welcome to the future: What online games can tell us about the future of learning. ULearn 2006, Keynote. September 25th - 27th, 2006, Christchurch, New Zealand
The future is here! What current trends in online gaming can tell us about
the future of learning. International Serious Games Event, June 5th and 6th, 2006, Birmingham UK
Feedback welcome!
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Papers and Articles -
Learning
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
As reported by Thomas Malaby over at Terra Nova, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Joystick 101 site has relaunched with the blogging support of lots of folks from the learning sciences department.
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Multimedia Resources -
Audio
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Written by Lisa Galarneau
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Monday, 05 March 2007 |
The forthcoming Star Trek MMO is one of the games I am looking most forward to, so I recently checked out their site to see how they're progressing with development. In addition to their production blog, they have a teaser site up now, and there are also a couple of interviews with producer Daron Stinnett that hint at what gameplay might be like.
I'm not generally one for plugging specific games, but THIS IS STAR TREK! And an MMO. Very exciting. (this guy is not at all excited, however)
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