critical glanceability

This is from a definition of critical thinking included in the Delphi Project report I talked about a few entries back. I’m putting together a short bit on critical thinking for an undergrad class – it’s amazing to me how this format pulls out all of the things I wanted to highlight.

ARGs in academia, or, gaming for health

via ARGnet – researchers at Indiana got a big ($185K) grant from the Robert Wood Johnson foundation to study how digital, interactive games can improve students’ health.  They’re studying this by creating a Lee Sheldon-designed alternate reality game called Skeleton Chase, “to help college freshmen develop healthy habits for life.” While the game will contain [...]

thanks

to everyone who has helped us through these hard two weeks.  It has meant a lot to us.  I’ll be closing Brodie’s comments now too as a preventative measure. Regularly scheduled programming will return soon.

Brodie

I’ve been sitting on this, thinking I would wait a few weeks. I think I had some misguided idea that if I did that, I could separate things out and talk about the loss of Brodie separately from the loss of Zico. But, this is how it happened, and it is not like I’ll ever [...]

comment spam and evil

I’ve just closed comments on Zico’s post below because of comment spam.  The spam plugin caught most everything, but obviously I can’t handle seeing any vandalism on that post.  This, unfortunately, means that the real comments that were there are no longer displaying.  We still have them, though, and they mean a lot to us. [...]