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• 22 – The Future of Work

  
  The Acagamic Blog — Authority: 471
  Jeff Brenman’s talk about the future of work is a very inspiring and great presentation (he works at a presentation consulting firm) that might come off as a little bit off topic here, but substantially most of the changing circumstances of our working lives mentioned in his talk are due to the people growing up ...
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• Top 10 podcasts for 2009

  
  Scott Laningham : dW podcasts — Authority: 112
  Some of my favorite podcasts of 2009. Ambuj Goyal on information-lead transformation and how it relates to a smarter planet. (Sep 28) LISTEN (13:24) Transcript dW at 10: Dirk Nicol on leading for open standards (Sep 28) LISTEN (11:19) Transcript John Hogan and Colin Harrison on smart cities (June ...
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• CityScape 1.8: What would it be like on an interactive touch/gesture screen or table?

  
  The World Is My Interface — Authority: 118
  Video, links, and pictures can be found on the following Interactive Multimedia Technology blogpost:CityScape 1.8: What would it be like on an interactive touch/gesture screen or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• CityScape 1.8: What would it be like on an interactive touch or gesture screen? (Video and link to demo)

  
  Interactive Multimedia Technology — Authority: 475
  Pixel Active, has announced version 1.8 of CityScape, "the rapid urban modeling tool that allows users to build both custom and real-world environments quickly and easily"CityScape 1.8... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• 19 – What Can We Learn From Computer Games?

  
  The Acagamic Blog — Authority: 471
  As a natural follow-up to yesterday’s slide deck , we have Mary and Douglas Kiang ’s presentation on digital games for the body, mind and soul today. Their talk outlines 21st Century skills expected from this generation, such as creativity, innovation, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration. If that ...
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• 18 – Why Video Games Are Good For You

  
  The Acagamic Blog — Authority: 471
  It is crystal ball time again. This time we are talking about the future of education. The claim: Game designers = Teachers. The presenter: Tim Hart . An instructional or learning technologist at the University of Maine in the USA. His presentation (with the title probably somewhat inspired by Steven Johnson’s ...
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• Free Graph Paper with 95 Graphs Grids and Games

  
  Educational Games Research — Authority: 112
  There were times in college I needed a sheet of graph paper, and wished I could just print out a copy in Word and be on my way. I finally ended up making my own, and thus added to a wide collection of cut and paste resources. Such material is especially prevalent among teachers the world over, and Paul Edelman has ...
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• Animating the News: How Videogame Technologies Can Alter Our Perceptions of Real Life Events

  
  Educational Games Research — Authority: 112
  Before photography caught on in newspapers, artists rendered their conceptions of newsworthy events through woodcuts. These pictures served as a basis for shaping perceptions among consumers of the news. Now, a Chinese company called Next Media has pioneered videogame animations to offer its readers artists’ ...
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• Get relief from stress

  
  Positive Technology Journal — Authority: 126
  Stressed by technology? Let out your office anger and smash up your computer !
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• The metagame and its importance to MMOs

  
  Massively — Authority: 636
  What is the metagame? It can mean a lot of different things depending on context, but all of the meanings share the sense that the metagame is not the game itself, but something above and affecting the game as a whole. In a casual game of poker, the metagame could be as simple as one of the players having an ...
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• Fourth Annual I/ITSEC Serious Games Showcase & Challenge

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 503
  The Interservice/Industry Training Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) ( www.iitsec.org ) announced the winners of 2009 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (SGS&C) competition. The awards were presented on December 3rd, 2009. In Orlando, Florida. The awards were given in three categories: the Best ...
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• What’s in a Serious Game?

  
  Virtual Speak — Authority: 116
  A recent report from GameIndustry stated that 83% of the United States population plays games; averaging 10.5 hours spent playing per week. Image courtesy of Game Industry More and more leading companies are adopting games for learning. Perhaps ‘game’ has a negative connotation for some. And I am ...
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• GameDays 2010 - Call for Papers

  
  beamtenherrschaft — Authority: 134
  Serious Games for Sports and Health GameDays 2010 March 25/26 2010, TU Darmstadt, Germany Call for papers We invite you to participate in the GameDays 2010. The GameDays, established in 2005 as annual "Science meets Business" event series, aim to provide an information and cooperation platform bringing together ...
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• Health care reform satire game “Death Panel” comes to the iPhone

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 160
  Casting a satirical view on the healthcare reform debate, the comic Death Panel game is debuting on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch devices today.Made by developer People Operating Technology, the game tests a user’s knowledge of healthcare reform. It takes its title from the much-discussed “death panels” that ...
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• Federation of American Scientists to teach kids biology via video games

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 160
  Bookmark this categoryAmerican students know their pop music, pro sports, and consumer electronics. But ask them about cell biology and you’ll get a blank stare. To combat that, the Federation of American Scientists has developed a video game, Immune Attack, that takes kids inside a human body.The game is aimed at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Stubbed Out

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 129
  Most public health games have a moralistic goody-two-shoes message, but not Smoking Kills , which encourages the player to join M.A.B.A.S. or the Mysterious Association of BadAsses Against Smokers and promptly begin directing to the player to aim his or her sniper fire against smoking stick-figure people. Killing ...
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• 3 – Serious Health Games for Stroke Rehabilitation

  
  The Acagamic Blog — Authority: 471
  Today, on the third of December, we tackle a serious (and very good) presentation from James Burke, a Ph.D. student from the University of Ulster, who researches games for serious purposes (so-called Serious Games) such as stroke rehabilitation. Games can be ideal motivators for patients to engage in upper limb ...
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• Digital Games for Physical, Cognitive and Behavioral Health

  
  Positive Technology Journal — Authority: 126
  Source: Reuters (From the press release) The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced more than $1.85 million in grants for research that will offer unprecedented insight into how digital games can improve players’ health behaviors and outcomes. With funding from RWJF’s Health Games Research ...
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• There Goes the Neighborhood

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 129
  In " Virtual human Army contractor will move to Playa Vista ," the Los Angeles Times reports that the Institute for Creative Technology will be relocating to new facilities. I interviewed several members of the game development teams that combine techinques and research methods from the military, the university, ...
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• Astronomical Science Learning Through WJU’s Selene Videogame

  
  Educational Games Research — Authority: 112
  I’ve had a pleasant e-mail conversation with Dr. Debbie Denise Reese over at Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia concerning the Selene Project, a multi-million dollar NASA and National Science Foundation funded learning project designed to teach students lunar science through a remarkable videogame. Dr. ...
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