Back to Gaming Again

Okay, so I have been saving blog entries about gaming in general and, more specifically, about gaming education in my Bloglines feedreader and it is about time that I actually post some of them here. Unfortunately, the mass of what I have come up with over much of the semester leaves me with really too much to comment on, but I will try to organize it at least.

Video Games - General

• Video games: Are the myths true? from Cognitive Daily
• How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days: Tips and Tricks from 4 Grad Students Who Made Over 50 Games in 1 Semester , Gamasutra from Edu_RSS
• Games in Development from Technology-Escapades - Adventurous explorations of technology!
• Why Can't Real Organizations Be As Collaborative As Virtual Games? from How to Save the World
• Games discover their star power from Edu_RSS
• Gaming Symposium 07: Beth Gallaway from Edu_RSS
• Gaming Symposium 08: Speakers Panel from Edu_RSS
• Women, we got game... from Liquid Boomerang

Violence and Video Gaming

• Punishing video game violence: Does it reduce aggressive behavior? from Cognitive Daily
• Violence in computer games: a view from the classroom from mackenty.org
• Video Game violence… Don’t believe the hype! from Liquid Boomerang
• Violent Video Game Use by Children. "Recent studie... from Liquid Boomerang
• Last word on Violent Videogames from Liquid Boomerang

Gaming in the Classroom / Teachers and Video Games

• Educators take serious look at video gaming from Derek's Blog
• Despite Allure, Using Digital Games for Learning Seen as No Easy Task from Distance-Educator.com's Daily News
• Games, Learning, and Society from iterating toward openness
• Games in Education Podcast! from mackenty.org
• Instructional design, planning, and games: advice for interested teachers from mackenty.org
• Want games to work in education? Become a technology evangalist! from mackenty.org
• Gaming and learning from joannejacobs.com
• From Technology & Learning Online edition from Liquid Boomerang
• The Sims Teach German from Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy

Types of Games

• interesting story about using COTS to teach history from mackenty.org
• Action and Adventure Games from Technology-Escapades - Adventurous explorations of technology!
• Serious Games Resources from Technology-Escapades - Adventurous explorations of technology!
• Simulation Games from Technology-Escapades - Adventurous explorations of technology!

Reviews of Video Games and Books

• Review: Theory of Fun for Game Design from Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy
• Review: What Video Games have to teach us about Learning and Literacy from Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy

Well, I'm sure that there is a lot there to go over... Some of the categories are a bit better than others and the main purpose of this post is to clear out my Bloglines account of these entries, but still have access to the links myself. But anyway...

So, any of these entries really jump out at you? Anything there worthy of further discussion?

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