Fazia I had a seat next to me at the panel that included the Mark Cuban interview.  Some guy named Michael Eisner did the interview and it was very interesting. Of course, I’ve said that about all the panels. Someone said after the interview that the Eisner guy had worked at Disney for awhile, I […]

This was an interesting panel dealing with fair use and copyright issues of content on the Internet. It’s been a topic that has been brought up briefly in almost every panel I’ve been to so far. The panel existed of a copyright attorney, a Warner Brothers representative and a guy named m dot Strange, no […]

I don’t think they were at all saying that teachers are replacable. Infact, they applauded the audience member who very emotionally asked for the 10k it takes to develop a game to be used instead to increase the salary of 10 thousand teachers by 1k each (though that hardly rewards them what they’re worth). The […]

This may have been the most interesting panel I have attended so far. Very genius to pair the old media mogul visionary Eisner with the young Net savvy cynic Cuban. The pair’s dynamic was very entertaining.   The interview began with Cuban making some jabs at the Zuckerberg/Lacy interview. He garnered an audience chuckle. Cuban asked […]

“Let’s Get Serious: Should Video Games Replace College?” Hmm… Sorry Link and Dee, I think I disagree.  A more apt title for this panel should have been “Let’s Get Serious: Should We Be Investing More Resources into Video Games Than Teachers?” On the video games for education panel Aliza Gold, Coordinator of the Digital Media Collaboratory […]

Hello All! I’m sitting here in my first panel which explores the question: “Should videogames replace college?” It’s super duper interesting and its a really great mix of panelists, which include game designers, administrators and even a young high school student. Dee Kapila