Darren Wershler is an English prof at Concordia University where I work (as well as many other things) has been teaching a course on stories in games. As part of the curriculum, he explores legacy games and their narrative structure. Here is the retro game cart he uses as part of his teaching: Lire la suite

On the subject of visualization walls, this recent presentation from CNI gives some great ideas and information. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfZ_1Afj3WI] I also liked this one: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mlLpkg6KEM&w=560&h=315] Lire la suite

Reading up on the subject of games in academic institutions Scholarly articles & papers (slightly disorganized) Tappeiner, Elizabeth & Catherine Lyons, (2008) “Selection criteria for academic video game collections“, Collection Building, Vol. 27 Iss: 3, pp.121 – 125 Kane, Danielle, Soehner, Catherine and Wei, Wei. “Building a collection of video games in support of a […] Lire la suite

john Hopkins University offers a series of Science videos to explain current research projects. Hat tip to the Scholarly Kitchen. Lire la suite

Aussi en français: http://www.culturelibre.ca/tag/knight/ Follow the evolution of this project here: http://outfind.ca/tag/knight/ Last year’s Arcade 11 brought an interesting mix of librarians, indie games developers as well as games scholars. Through conversations and exchanges of views, it quickly emerged that libraries required alternative models to make independent games available through their digital collections. Purchasing born-digital […] Lire la suite

I just saw this fly through my RSS feeds today, the Harvard College Writing Program has just launched the Harvard Guide to Using Sources. From what I can see from interacting with this site for a few moments, it is a text heavy resource with some hyperlinked content, although it feels like one should go […] Lire la suite

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Aussi en français: http://www.culturelibre.ca/tag/knight/ Follow the evolution of this project here: http://outfind.ca/tag/knight/ I am very pleased to announce that our project, called Indie Games Licensing, was awarded a Prototype Grant as per the most recent Knight News Challenge. I am absolutely thrilled and thankful towards the Knight Foundation and all my partners for this incredible […] Lire la suite

The latest issue of the peer-reviewed Syllabus Journal just came out, with a special issue on teaching with videogames: We are pleased to announce the publication of a new special issue of Syllabus Journal (4.1) on “Teaching with and about Video Games.” Syllabus Journal is a peer reviewed venue through which academics can publish syllabi, […] Lire la suite

I’ve just discovered these recent videos from the University of Alberta’s Office of Student Judicial Affairs. Here are the three videos: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bx5DAqTPhU&w=560&h=315] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U20JqG2Ghs&w=560&h=315] And this one, a plagiarism rap! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT6S4ERI0o8&w=560&h=315] Lire la suite