One of the challenges in designing games or activities for education is the interface between a game’s subject and its mechanics. Picture if you will the classic computer game John Kerry Tax Invaders, released by the GOP during the 2004 election. The gameplay is identical to Space Invaders, but instead of a ship you control [...]
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History Invaders!
March 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Tags: Games and Gaming · History@Play · Teaching
Would You Rather
March 13th, 2010 · 7 Comments
If you’re getting the idea that what I mean by “playful” historical thinking is better known as “bad” historical thinking, go to the head of the class.
Tags: History@Play · Teaching
Playful Historical Thinking
March 8th, 2010 · 5 Comments
History is too important to take seriously.
Tags: Academia · History@Play · Teaching
Day In The Life
March 19th, 2009 · No Comments
Suffering from Turkel withdrawal? Bill takes part in the Day of Digital History with a day in his awesome life. I have a quick cameo, spoiling his lunch. (The orange shirt was an experiment, btw, and minutes after that photo I got a haircut.)
Tags: Academia · Asides · Digital History · Teaching
Technology Grows On Trees
March 18th, 2009 · 10 Comments
Canadian wise men discover the secret of pottery: deconstructing the Civilization tech tree.
Tags: Academia · Favorites · Games and Gaming · History@Play · Teaching · Technology
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments
The revolution will not be televised?
Tags: Teaching
Pants Extinguished
December 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Sweet: Mills Kelly’s why-didn’t-I-think-of-that class on historical hoaxes has completed, and come clean on, their promised hoax.
Tags: Academia · Concept Courses · History@Play · Teaching
Are Whales Fish?
December 8th, 2008 · 16 Comments
Don’t get me started.
Pants On Fire
August 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Mills Kelly is teaching a course this year that has me seething with jealousy awed respect: Lying About The Past, complete with a second term create-a-hoax practicum.
Tags: Academia · Asides · Concept Courses · History@Play · Teaching
All That Camp
June 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Write up and reflection on THATCamp 2008, an excellent “unconference” on digital technology and the humanities.
Tags: Academia · Digital History · Favorites · History@Play · Teaching · Technology
