Ian Bogost on The Colbert Report
Our friend Ian Bogost was on The Colbert Report Tuesday night, where he was “not only a great foil for Colbert’s jokes but simultaneously interesting” as my friend Brad wrote me later. Indeed, Ian was...
View ArticleGAMBIT made it to CNN
Our buddies here at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab created a game this summer for the visually impaired. Props to Eitan Glinert and crew for getting CNN to pick it up! View the story here.
View ArticleVisit to Purdue
Thursday and Friday of this week I went to Purdue to give a talk at the serious games forum. My friend Samantha Blackmon, an associate prof there in the Rhetoric and Composition Studies program,...
View ArticleTo See Myself in Print
The first book chapter I wrote is now seeing the light of day. Hooray! I received an email today from the editor of a book titled “Reformation: The Teaching and Learning of English in Electronic...
View ArticleLibraries Are Awesome
Special thanks to Jenny Levine (aka The Shifted Librarian) for providing a virtual handshake with Lisa Hinchliffe, an associate professor in library administration at the University of Illinois at...
View ArticleThe Lost Ring
This past Monday I received a box in the mail that contained several items: a poster, three postcards, and a ball of yarn. It could only mean one thing: a new ARG! I took out my camera and snapped a...
View ArticleLibraries, Games, and Writing
Last week I had the pleasure of addressing the Colorado Academic Library Consortium‘s Academic Summit in Denver, Colorado. I nearly didn’t make it, though, because there was a terrible tornado just...
View ArticleMy Article in Computers and Composition is Out
Shameless self-promotion: my article “The Design of the Game: Writing Games, Teaching Writing” has just been published in Computers and Composition, an Elsevier journal. It’s available from Science...
View ArticleStuff I Like Right Now
So I post these things to Twitter with some regularity, but thought I’d post them here too, for the record. People often ask me what I’m playing and listening to and watching, etc. So here’s a short...
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