NASAGA is a network of professionals working on the design, implementation, and evaluation of games and simulations to improve learning results in education and training. Each year NASAGA holds an annual conference http://www.nasaga.org/conference2004/index.asp and provides a scholarship (up to $850 for registration and travel expenses) to a student studying in the fields of education, training, [...]

There’s an interesting website up describing a 2-hour PBS program about The Video Game Revolution. Here’s the blurb: “The Video Game Revolution is primarily an entertaining look at the world of games, but all is not fun and frolic in that world, and the program touches on that as well. Many games are extremely violent [...]

For those of you looking to create a game which can involve a large number of people, The Beer Game is an example of a game that a group can play, with minimal props. It’s a logistics game that was originally developed by MIT in the 60s. The purpose of the game was to demonstrate [...]

Hello all, I got the word that my school site has recovered lots of money from the Microsoft antitrust settlement – money to be used toward educational software in my department, Science. If anyone knows of any good high school level science educational games (software), please let me know – some titles I’m looking at [...]

For those of you attending the Sunday night chat, the Simulation software was from California (not Australia.) Forio Simulations has free web-based simulation software called Broadcast Express. It provides everything you need to get a simulation running on the web. Models must be fewer than 2,500 equations.

Bush said. Kerry said. Bush said that Kerry said. Kerry said that Bush said. Who is telling the truth? What version of the truth? Isn’t politics great? I just love how politics constructs value-laden images in our minds. In a way, politics aims to teach us what should be important to us, what we should [...]

Have you heard about the Serious Games Initiative? It focuses on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links between the electronic game industry and projects involving the use of games in education, training, health, and public policy. I [...]

At the beginning of our school year, we had the opportunity to meet a master teacher who specializes in creating simulation games for his history classroom. Eric Rothschild, who is also coauthor of The Chicago Handbook for Teachers, creates role based games for his students where the students do the reasearch and then act out [...]

Well, this is timely. Kuma Reality Games is about to release a simulation game of John Kerry’s missions in Vietnam, according to The New York Times. With regard to the anti-Kerry accounts floating about: “We will present the controversy and different perspectives on it in the video news show that will accompany the mission,” she [...]

I found a site that might be helpful in developing ideas for board games. There are many different kinds of board and card games listed on this site and some can be downloaded for free. Students may enjoy browsing through the site to get some ideas when stuck. One thing you may want to know [...]

I heard this news bit while driving cross-country through Nevada. I was pretty happy to get NPR in the middle of nowhere, and this caught my attention. Apparently the kid loved learning about US presidential trivia, and he turned his love into a board game. You can hear the audio or read the summary at [...]

670 students who are local to San Diego will be interested in Games Workshop for Teachers coming next month to the museum in Balboa Park. “The San Diego Museum of Man is pleased to present a 2-day workshop on games taught by Dr. Wayne Saunders, educator, game historian and collector. This workshop is designed for [...]