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Gaming in Libraries

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:02:51 +0000

Liz added Gaming in Libraries

http://www.switched.com/2008/10/12/libraries-use-video-games-to-encourage-kids-to-read/

Making distinction between deeper games (such as WoW or Civ) and literacy, and DDR/GH class video games; not supportive.

Reading List: Articles

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:34:15 +0000

Liz edited Reading List: Articles

<Keep in mind (2) |Reading List: Books >
same caveats as noted in "Reading List: Books"
got GAME GAME retrieved 12 Oct 08
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/25683
Educator blog: Can video games hook kids on reading, retrieved 12 Oct 08
http://www.romow.com/education-blog/can-video-games-hook-kids-on-reading/
Games, Gaming, and Gamers: Why You Want Them in Your Libraries
http://lsobibliotech.blogspot.com/2007/10/games-gaming-and-gamers-why-you-want.html

Reading List: Articles

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:26:47 +0000

Liz edited Reading List: Articles

<Keep in mind (2) |Reading List: Books >
same caveats as noted in "Reading List: Books"
*Yale: They've got GAME
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/25683
Games, Gaming, and Gamers: Why You Want Them in Your Libraries
http://lsobibliotech.blogspot.com/2007/10/games-gaming-and-gamers-why-you-want.html
abstract: "...great potential as sites for research in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences ... The article uses Second Life and World of Warcraft as two very different examples of current virtual worlds that foreshadow future developments introducing a number of research methodologies... formal experimentation, observational ethnography, quantitative analysis of economic markets or social networks."
VERY RELEVANT
Bainbridge's article later produced the WoW "Science" guild on the Earthen Ring server (Horde) and an in-game formal conference May 15 (about) 2008. A follow-up article in Science magazine (June 20, 2008)

Tangents

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:30:55 +0000

Liz edited Tangents

<Reading List: Other, misc | Things To Look Into
Last year, Nintendo took in 16.85 -billion-
are we? we? 31jul08
Is the word "games" something people cannot get past? Unscientific poll from http://www.elearningguild.com/index.cfm retrieved 24 Jan 08.
Since what we call it seems to matter... which works best in your organization?

Tangents

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:30:34 +0000

Liz edited Tangents

<Reading List: Other, misc | Things To Look Into
Last year, Nintendo took in 16.85 -billion-
Twitterfeed EB/Abash ... track down source. "Last year" = 2007. Not exactly niche numbers any more, are we?
Is the word "games" something people cannot get past? Unscientific poll from http://www.elearningguild.com/index.cfm retrieved 24 Jan 08.
Since what we call it seems to matter... which works best in your organization?
In the last presentation I did with Real Life Real Talk (sex ed for parents), there was a lot of interest in online social networking sites and how teens use them."
...compare the OCLC Report on Teens and Privacy.
http://www.imaginon.org/index.asp --
-- reportedly (SD, verbal 12/20/07) this is the model Phoenix Public is integrating with its Teen Central (which was itself developed on the model of LA Public's Teen'Scape space). Teen Central has been very successful; likelihood is that they'll handle their ga

Things To Look Into

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:10:38 +0000

Liz edited Things To Look Into

http://www.ourcourts.org/ ... "Welcome to Our Courts!"
Sandra Day O'Connor working on educational video game: "...interactive online civics curriculum..." -- free -- to learn about judiciary system
http://fantasticcontraption.com/
Physics + puzzle = online gaming fun
ISTE -- Intl Soc for Technology in Education -- K/12 focus
ELI -- www.educause.edu/ELI -- Education in Learning -- IT

Reading List: Online

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:38:13 +0000

Liz edited Reading List: Online

<Reading List: Books | Reading List: Other, misc >
same caveats as given on "Reading List: Books"
http://thesomewhatambitious.com/2008/07/wtb-one-ass-kicking/#more-125
Australian youngster (15-y.o.) ninja-loots Warglaive on 25-man Black Temple run, pressured in real world to make recompense (letter to his principal, on the grounds that if he was caught stealing at the mall there would be notification also). Blizzard stepped in to enable item to be returned to the guild it was stolen from. Story made radio news as well as print.
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/04/guitar_gateway
Guitar Hero instilling renewed interest in playing a real guitar, and having an effect on music industry

About the researcher

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:38:28 +0000

Liz edited About the researcher

About the researcher

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:11:12 +0000

Liz edited About the researcher

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:CiIL8hrzscEJ:www.nickyee.com/pubs/Ducheneaut,%2520Yee,%2520Nickell,%2520Moore%2520-%2520Chi%25202007.pdf+nick+yee+life+death+guilds&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
This is the article that instigated my inquiries. Until then, I did not even realize WoW was the subject of empirical academic investigation.
ETA: The Arizona Daily Star just did a nice article about gaming in libraries, based on the Verizon Foundation's recent delivery of the grant money to ALA. I was interviewed, as well as others in the Pima County Public Library system -- including, importantly, hearing from the teens themselves.
Libraries booking young video gamers
By Rhonda Bodfield
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/248042.php
The ALA/Verizon Foundation press release is here: http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2008/june2008/verizon08.cfm

Tangents

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:55:11 +0000

Liz edited Tangents

Check them out for yourself at the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries’ homepage. Keep in mind that these are still in beta and may still have a few kinks to work out."
.....compare ASU literacy game Quarantined: http://library.west.asu.edu/game/quarantined/login.cfm which Carnegie Mellon links to.
Webkinzfrom Webkinz website:
"Webkinz World is a great place to learn and play!
Your child can learn lots of fun facts at Quizzy's. The questions at Quizzy's are age-appropriate, and most are educationally based.
We also have several arcade games that promote learning:
Webkinz Newz and the W Tales encourage reading, and our many contests encourage writing, creativity, and problem-solving.
Your child can learn about money in Webkinz World; by earning KinzCash, your child learns how to save and spend money.
with others. others."
"Welcome to the School and Fitness Facility section. This section is meant to offer DDR supplies

FrontPage

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:53:25 +0000

Liz edited FrontPage

Read the Initial Report
This is emphatically a work in progress, pursuant to an independent research study by Liz Danforth under guidance from Dr. Chris Johnson (University of Arizona and http://www.21stcenturylearning.com). My Master's degree has been completed, but the research continues.
wiki. You can't edit, but I'm willing to hear from you. I don't promise these pages will make The work here is "in progress" and in many ways is simply the virtual equivalent of a lot shoebox full of sense notecards. I have chosen to anyone else while I'm "in progress." spend the time collecting information and not in making it pretty: substance trumps style, I believe. Pretty comes later.
(and yes, bias noted. The Second Life screenshot exemplifies one of the main differences I experience between the active, heroic WoW toon, and the passive stand-around SL av even if she does wear funky makeup ...Solar Her

Reading List: Online

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:27:06 +0000

Liz edited Reading List: Online

<Reading List: Books | Reading List: Other, misc >
same caveats as given on "Reading List: Books"
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/04/guitar_gateway
Guitar Hero instilling renewed interest in playing a real guitar, and having an effect on music industry
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1739601,00.html
How Second Life Affects Real Life. Confidence and assertiveness of taller, good-looking avs, among other things.

Reading List: Online

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:49:18 +0000

Liz edited Reading List: Online

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1739601,00.html
How Second Life Affects Real Life. Confidence and assertiveness of taller, good-looking avs, among other things.
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?OPERATION_TYPE=CHECK_COOKIE&referer=/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp&productId=R0805C&TRUE=TRUE&reason=freeContent&FALSE=FALSE&ml_subscriber=true&_requestid=124622&ml_action=get-article&ml_issueid=BR0805&articleID=R0805C&pageNumber=1
"Leaderships Online Labs" -- seems to be a reiteration of earlier studies; need to look for currency of data
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/giogaming/073007/index1.shtml
IBM on the leadership skills of MMORGs ---

Things To Look Into

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:34:51 +0000

Liz edited Things To Look Into

<Tangents | Possible People to Contact >
http://www.ourcourts.org/ ... "Welcome to Our Courts!"
Sandra Day O'Connor working on educational video game: "...interactive online civics curriculum..." -- free -- to learn about judiciary system
ISTE -- Intl Soc for Technology in Education -- K/12 focus
ELI -- www.educause.edu/ELI -- Education in Learning -- IT

About the researcher

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:20:18 +0000

Liz edited About the researcher

gaming, for specifically as related to learning and literacy in libraries.
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:CiIL8hrzscEJ:www.nickyee.com/pubs/Ducheneaut,%2520Yee,%2520Nickell,%2520Moore%2520-%2520Chi%25202007.pdf+nick+yee+life+death+guilds&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
This is the article that instigated my inquiries. Until then, I did not even realize WoW was the subject of empirical academic investigation.

QuickStart

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:18:07 +0000

Liz edited QuickStart

Reading List: Online
Tangents
About the researcher

About the researcher

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:17:19 +0000

Liz edited About the researcher

two years. years. I have recently been asked to sit on the "experts panel" for American Libraries Association, which works with a Verizon grant-funded initiative to look at and develop games and gaming, for learning and literacy in libraries.
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:CiIL8hrzscEJ:www.nickyee.com/pubs/Ducheneaut,%2520Yee,%2520Nickell,%2520Moore%2520-%2520Chi%25202007.pdf+nick+yee+life+death+guilds&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
This is the article that instigated my inquiries. Until then, I did not even realize WoW was the subject of empirical academic investigation.

FrontPage

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:13:51 +0000

Liz edited FrontPage

Tighten the Focus ... as work progresses, focus adjusts >
Read the Initial Report
Danforth
under under guidance from Dr. Chris Johnson (University of Arizona). Arizona and http://www.21stcenturylearning.com). My Master's degree has been completed, but the research continues.
Comments, suggestions, and ideas are welcomed. That's why it's a public wiki. You can't edit, but I'm willing to hear from you. I don't promise these pages will make a lot of sense to anyone else while I'm "in progress."
(and yes, bias noted. The Second Life screenshot exemplifies one of the main differences I experience between the active, heroic WoW toon, and the passive stand-around SL av even if she does wear funky makeup ...Solar Hero and all that, vs everyday simulation of RL.) And yes, the gender distinction here is also a conscious choice. I have multiple toons, of every race, gender, and class available to me in WoW. Since I've been asked, I've recently

About the researcher

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:25:06 +0000

Liz edited About the researcher

Some people who have been in the hobby of games a very long time may recognize my name from my years working as a freelancer in the gaming industry. I am best known as an artist and illustrator, but also spent a great deal of time editing, writing, doing game design and development. Mostly I worked back in the days of the paper and pencil/tabletop games but have about 50 paintings in Magic: the Gathering (and many other collectible card games, most notably the Lord of the Rings Middle Earth ccg from Iron Crown Enterprises.) I contributed storyline, puzzle, and scenario development to a number of computer games for Interplay, New World Computing, and Electronic Arts. In 1996 I was inducted into the Academy of Gaming Arts and Design Hall of Fame (the creative arm of GAMA, the Game Manufacturers Association http://www.gama.org). I have no continuing association with the game industry these days, but have been working in one of two large urban public libraries for the last 17 years, full time for the last tw

Reading List: Online

email.hidden@example.com (Liz) — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:46:25 +0000

Liz edited Reading List: Online

<Reading List: Books | Reading List: Other, misc >
same caveats as given on "Reading List: Books"
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1739601,00.html
How Second Life Affects Real Life. Confidence and assertiveness of taller, good-looking avs, among other things.
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/giogaming/073007/index1.shtml
IBM on the leadership skills of MMORGs ---