GameCity Squared 2009

I spent the last few days in Nottingham for the GameCity festival. I started off by attending the Interactive Technologies and Games con...

School of gaming starts in New York

This Guardian article on a school founded on the principles of game-based learning claims this is also "proof that games are educatio...

HCI 2009

Ok, so the second conference post. The 23rd BCS (British Computing Society) HCI (Human Computer Interaction) conference was held in Cambridg...

JURE and EARLI 2009

I was going to write a single blog post titled "Conference season" since that is what the last two weeks have felt like, but I thi...

Women and games

I've been a bit quiet lately because it's the summer and I've not really been in one place for long but I do promise to post som...

Critical thinking and The Sims 3

Thanks to Costas again for sending me a link to a fascinating blog that is looking at what happens when you decide to play a homeless fami...

H809: a couple of links

Just a very short post to point to a couple of things that might be useful for the final assignment: 1) A research proposal outline - poste...