Educational Gaming Commons - Press Start

Thank you to everyone who made it to our second brown bag lunch this past Wednesday in the IST Building. We're exploring a new location for April's meeting and will post the information once it is finalized.

We covered a lot of topics on Wednesday, including:

• Are educators sucking the fun out of games when we try and create game-based learning experiences?
• Is it feasible to create a multi-disciplinary team of faculty at PSU to examine virtual worlds and work towards funded research opportunities to run experimental research projects?
• How can PSU provide physical infrastructure for faculty members who would like to use, for example, Second Life, Sim City, World of Warcraft, and other gaming software in Penn State lab environments?
• Creating a system where faculty work with designers to create lesson plans or modules around an existing game

I hope everyone came away with some new things to think about and new ideas to experiment in the classroom or in a research setting. I look forward to continuing the discussion next month!