Category Events

It’s all about ARGs

I had another good day yesterday at ALT-C 2008, and was very pleased to finally meet Juliette Culver, Alex Moseley and Daniel Livingstone – all doing excellent work in games and education.The talk here has been very much centered on the potential of ARGs in teaching…

Meeting 2.0?

I’ve just arrived at ALT-C in Leeds after attending a 24-hour meeting run by Lawrie Phipps. Usually I feel very flat after this sort of event, but just now I am buzzing with excitement and ideas. This was essentially an…

Games papers at BERA

I’m currently at my first British Educational Research Association (BERA) conference and feeling a bit overwhelmed by the sheer number of people, conceptual difficulty of some of the papers, and unpleasantness of Heriot Watt food. Been to a couple of…

LICK 2008

Big congratulations to my friend Keith for managing to put together a symposium with the acronym LICK. Result, mate. To be fair though, apart from the obvious comedy value in the name, the Learners In the Co-creation of Knowledge Symposium…

News from the Dam

I’m currently in Amsterdam at the IADIS Gaming 2008 conference. It got off to a kicking start this morning with an opening keynote from Adriana Skarped, one of the main designers of the Swedish ARG The Truth about Marika. I…