We are out in the woods for some fishing and hiking at our favorite place, the Pourvoirie Waban-Aki just before La Tuque in Québec. Back in a week or so… Lire la suite

I had to free up some space on my devices, but I wanted to keep track of them. Here they are: > Media Shift > Stuff you should know > How stuff works > Radiolab Lire la suite

Google Reader is dead. Long live Google Reader. I’ve presented on RSS feeds before on this blog, but now I have a new feed aggregator. See also a presentation I held, in French, on blogging as a doctoral student (slides here). After much investigation, I have settled on Feedly to manage my daily information feeds. […] Lire la suite

I liked this interesting take on undergraduate tacit knowledge from this experienced librarian in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Some key take-back points: Journals and magazines are published as ongoing series. For those of us who remember print, articles are bundled into issues, issues into volumes, and every year more articles are published in these […] Lire la suite

Please note that I am in sabbatical for the next 6 months, essentially writing my doctoral thesis. I won’t be checking my work email. To follow my work, please refer to my French language research blog CultureLibre.ca. I’ll try to post on this blog once and a while, but not as often as usual… Lire la suite

A colleague mentioned this game, called “The Last of Us” that one can watch as a movie or play like a game. According to her, the cinematographic parts are hard to discern from the game. See this walkthrough on YouTube: Lire la suite

I recommend this really interesting article from Alexandre Enkerli on the topic of which apps on the iOS platform he uses for his teaching, researching and… well… day-to-day life. Of particular value is the discussion of his “workflow” and how each app supports him. Lire la suite

“Playing Outside” is a great essay by Leigh Alexander in The New Inquiey covers much ground on the role of play and fun in games. An emerging digital ecosystem is emerging outside the contours of classic blockbuster video games. Alexander asserts that: if genuine legitimacy for games lies in the idea that they can be […] Lire la suite

[ted id=1752] In this TED Talk, Paola Antonelli explains why, as the Museum of Modern Art’s senior curator of architecture and design, she identified 14 games to curate as part of the venerable New York City institution’s permanent collection. The goal is to integrate these games as perfect examples of “interactive design” – a particular […] Lire la suite

Mia Consalvo, Canada Research Chair in Game Studies & Design at Concordia University, just blogged about her experience in running a graduate course called: COMS 642Q: Cheating, Games, and the Ethics of Play Media (link to course outline). Most interestingly, students had to create a running online game using the ChoiceScript platform. All the student […] Lire la suite