Here is a draft outline I just created for a professor teaching an entrepreneurship class for Fine Arts students. Caveat being that these students are not business majors, so we have to spend more time explaining why each resource is useful and how to incorporate these sources in their assignments. Also, the bit about copyright is […] Lire la suite

Aussi en français: http://www.culturelibre.ca/tag/knight/ Follow the evolution of this project here: http://outfind.ca/tag/knight/ I am very happy to report that the project report for the indie games licensing project is now available on the Technoculture Art & Games research center’s blog.  Lire la suite

Here is an the abstract of an interesting article looking at student prefeferences between lecture capture versus screencasting published in the International Journal of E-Learning and Distance Education: Students’ Preferences for Types of Video Lectures: Lecture Capture vs. Screencasting RecordingsAlaa Sadik Abstract The use of online videos as a supplement to traditional lectures or as […] Lire la suite

Aussi en français: http://www.culturelibre.ca/tag/knight/ Follow the evolution of this project here: http://outfind.ca/tag/knight/ Here is the presentation I will be delivering to the Knight Foundation about the Indie Games Licensing for Libraries project. This slide explains the main idea behind the project, namely connecting indie developers with libraries through a series of copyright contracts, also called […] Lire la suite

I have been trying out and testing different models to create instructional tutorials for the past few years. I provided an account of my last iteration in a post on this blog, called “Anatomy of a YouTube Tutorial” and “My gear to record a session“. I think I may have figured out a better way […] Lire la suite

Aussi en français: http://www.culturelibre.ca/tag/knight/ Follow the evolution of this project here: http://outfind.ca/tag/knight/ Above is a picture of our prototype, codename Alice for a few reasons: it is our “alpha” or A prototype; Alice, in encryption circles, tries to talk to Bob; and it is a “clin-d’oeil” to Lisa, Apple’s first computer with a graphical interface […] Lire la suite

I’ve been toying with documenting a burgeoning video/digital game collection for my institution. I took a stab at establishing some costs and space considerations for various assumptions. For example, average cost and sizes for consoles, controllers and games from years past… I’ve tried to capture some of the metrics and data I’ve gathered in this […] Lire la suite

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