Hi All, I’m listening and blogging so please excuse my choppiness.————————————————————— The panel opened with a brief description of the Wiimote and its components. They moved on to talk about the 4 e-educator’s challenges/needs:attentionmotivationparticipationretention The panelists discussed that in a good learning game design, those 4 behaviors are not difficult to achieve. Most game designers […]

Here’s my teaser for a longer post on McGonigal. She’s passionate about the subject of games, but I have to admit that the idea of turning self-actualization over to an outside designer as opposed to taking direct action for my own self-actualization freaks me out. Something very 1984 about it no matter how benevolent you […]

I apologize for my uh “skillz” in the shooting movies category. I know it makes all you RTF kids jealous. Dee Kapila

How Piracy Will Save the Music Industry in a nutshell… sort of. Jason Schwartz of Angelsoft records. He described a clandestine Fight Club type group called “The Scene” who are responsible for the best quality and first released pirated content. These are people who are deeply embedded within the entertainment system. According to Schwarts, the […]

me: Jane McGonigal chatJonathan: YES!!me: So what do you think of her so far?Jonathan: So, happiness is the new capital?me: Is that sarcasm?Jonathan: I really think her ideas are innovativeme: Because she’s awesomeHahah okay goodI really love that she is talking about how happiness is definedJonathan: yes, it’s really neat to think that gaming is […]

You heard it here first. Videos to come of her general awesomeness and also, a chat transcript between the infamous Jon Zmikly and I as we watched Jane’s keynote. Stay tuned!!———————————————————————————-Edit: Thoughts after her Keynote I still maintain that Jane is awesome and her keynote was great but there are a couple of points I […]