The Future of Literacy is Video Games?
My project is a website that addresses topics in bringing commercial video game into the classroom. Specifically, the website is comprised of links to articles on video games in education, essays on specific video games, a brief explanation of various forms of role-playing games, video game music, and projects with video games. Visitors to the website will also be able to comment on all these topics. I can present my work on a PC or a MAC.
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Who is that handsome bearded gentleman pictured on the website? Oh, that's the dog. Sorry! Some gender switching here.
Matt, I am excited about both of your sites. I would like to give you some feedback and will be doing that in the next day or two.
Thanks for sharing. K
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I love your site. I absolutely love the pictures and images as background. I think you incorporate your personal and professional interests nicely. I will be referring to your site when I work on mine! Do you have a resume to post?
I'm not sure I want to include a resume online. I'll certainly give an my resume to prospective employers, but it will probably be a hard copy.
Matt, the online resume is already standard in all of the professions. Not to say you wouldn't give a direct interviewer a hard copy or send it with a cover letter, but I encourage you to link to your resume on your website. Isn't that one of the purposes of a professional website?
I was listening to the NPR program Talk of the Nation last week and there was an interesting discussion that made me think of your project. You can listen to the broadcast here. It was a discussion of how to get more people interested in gaming (what with the holiday push for the new Nintendo system). But what caught my attention was a comment about how to use games as teaching tools. One of the panelists said that even a game like Grand Theft Auto has value in terms of storytelling. Naturally, he added that the stories are very violent, but it's still storytelling. Anyway, thought it might be something of interest to you.
Thanks Sarah, I'll check it out.
Matt, what I'm finding interesting lately is that just last spring you could be pretty comprehensive in your awareness of those texts that take up video games and literacy.
6 months later that seems increasingly challenging. What do you think? This Discourse is developing faster than you can get your hands on it.
You're ahead of the curve but continuing to navigate it is going to be more difficult in future.
It is amazing how much information has come out. It's exciting. I wonder how much of this new information has been inspired by the unvieling of the next generation consoles (Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, and the less commercially popular educational consoles).
Matt, I wonder if you're reading MIT professor, Henry Jenkins' blog. The current entry is of great interest to you.
Remember, Jenkins is the media studies guru Will referenced when he visited with us.
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