New Video on Penn State and Second Life Available!

Posted by on May 14, 2009 in Blog, EGC, ETS, video | Comments Off

See https://streaming.psu.edu/media/?movieId=8240 Leslie, Shannon, and I worked together on this. Leslie wanted a video to show adult learners and practitioners the possibilities for SL at the 2009 Hendrick Best Practices for Adult Learners Conference. Shannon and I wanted a video to show anyone what’s happening in the space. Kim Winck of ETS did a great job advising us and producing the...

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TLT Talk: Educational Gaming Commons

Posted by on May 30, 2008 in Blog, EGC, Presentations, TLT Talk | 1 comment

Yesterday Brett Bixler, Bart Pursel, and Chris Stubbs gave a talk during the lunchtime TLT Talk series about the Educational Gaming Commons initiative. The group provides a good overview of the initiative and even shows off one of the games being developed by our own jason Wolfe,...

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Educational Gaming Commons

Posted by on Mar 11, 2008 in Blog, Community Hub, EGC | Comments Off

The PSU Educational Gaming Commons aims to create a community of users who will support both physical and virtual infrastructure to promote the broad impact of gaming within the teaching, learning, and research environment. Serious Games, or gaming for learning purposes, have become a very hot topic in higher education in recent years. Gaming in general is one of the most universally...

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