Understanding Games is series of four games trying to raise awareness for the basic concepts of video games. The tutorial-style episodes deal with rules, motivation, learning and identification in video games. The player is guided through each episode by the narrators Bob and Bub, who explain core concepts of games to the player. The player [...]

This is the blog for Mark Oehlert, a fascinating learning professional and avid gaming follower. He has many links, interesting blog posts, and this is worth visiting for many resources and interesting posts or just to add his del.icio.us posts to your network if nothing else. He has numerous game links, gaming research and games [...]

From Author Karl M. Kapp’s Site Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning “This site is a continuation of the book (Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning) and a place to build a community discussion around knowledge transfer and the gamer/boomer knowledge gap. Feel free to add a comment on the blog, create an entry in [...]

Multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) are not necessary to be heavily game-specific. One of the most well-known MUVEs is River City project created by a group of professors from several universities in 2000. This National Science Foundation funded project is based on a scenario that a city in 19th century is suffering from public health problems. [...]

From an article in Campus Technology:“Georgia Tech librarian Brian Matthews has teamed up with GT computer science professor Blaire MacIntyre to develop a space in the Second Life virtual world from which students could “check out” land parcels in order “to hang out, explore, and learn the basics of the software.” From Brian Matthews’ blog, [...]

Hey Ed Tech 670 Gamers! Are you living your Second Life yet? Check out this swell camp I set up. Here is the URL to my 670 blog: http://robloeffel.blogspot.com/

This week I’ve noticed some game-related stories/posts via my Bloglines feed and I thought that some of these might be of interest to others too! Avatars Everywhere: 27 of the Best Avatar Makers Games that warp your sense of reality after long periods of play(Now it semmes that the trick is to figure out how [...]

Wired magazine’s latest issue has a great story on how they test the gameplay of the popular Xbox game, Halo. Halo 3 is coming out soon, and this article looks at what game designers at Bungie Studios do to make the game fun. Note to all students: We’ll be talking more about the blog assignment [...]