Professor Rex Brynen of McGill University’s Department of Political Science offered his students the opportunity to storify their class assignments for his international political science class using InkleWriter. This is a simple text-based tool, allowing you to branch your story in many direction. Games can be accessed from within this blog post. Lire la suite

I just finished reading Anna Anthropy‘s most recent book on the topic of DIY games. Here is the full reference, part of my short yet growing bibliography on the subject: Anthropy, A. (2012). Rise of the videogame zinesters : How freaks, normals, amateurs, artists, dreamers, dropouts, queers, housewives, and people like you are taking back an […] Lire la suite

Pascal Martinolli from Université de Montréal presented a Research Portfolio used to assist students for a research project. It is used in a one credit optional graduate class (PLU 6058) where students go through various information literacy themes… Lire la suite

Following my post on prof Hirumi, his InterPLAY model and experiential learning, I sent off to learn more on gamification, eLearning and other related topics. I setup an quick and dirty bibliography on the topic and shared it from my RefWorks site. In addition to what I have posted in my first post on prof. […] Lire la suite

Here is the video of a lecture in English I gave yesterday at Université de Montréal’s Centre du droit des affaires et du commerce International. I also pasted below the abstract and the poster of the event : [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3GBJPTcf4M&w=640&h=360] Copyright, caught in a digital maelstrom of perpetual reform and shifting commercial practices, exacerbates tensions between […] Lire la suite

I learned so much from the e.SCAPE conference at Concordia – but professor Hirumi inspired me to look into grounding the curriculum I am developing for business information literacy in proven theories. Professor wrote a book in 2010 on this model: Call Number LB 1029 S53P53 2010 Title Playing games in school : video games and […] Lire la suite

A more recent version of this post is available here. Lire la suite

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8so2aBH7uEI&w=640&h=360] I gave a talk at the e.Scape conference at Concordia University on the topic of : The unexpected journey from a 60 minute lecture to a MOOC: a librarian’s mid-way report Here is the description: Information Literacy can be understood as the curriculum Librarians must curate without a classroom. Traditionally, this has meant organising […] Lire la suite

I saw this add in a special section of Le Devoir this weekend: Essentially, the Musée de la civilisation de Québec has issued a plea to get donation of antique video game consoles to build a heritage grade collection. They are also announcing an expo on vintage games starting April 24th 2013: Game Story April […] Lire la suite

I will be giving my talk shortly this morning at the e.Scape conference at Concordia University on the topic of : The unexpected journey from a 60 minute lecture to a MOOC: a librarian’s mid-way report I’ll be talking about how my use of technology has changes my professional practice. I’ll briefly discuss MOOCs also, positioning […] Lire la suite