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I’m scheduled to defend my dissertation proposal next Wednesday.  Here’s the abstract for my proposal:
          Serious Games are digital games with an educational, informative, or persuasive goal beyond mere entertainment (Abt, 2002).  They are promising because they often contain features that appear to be useful for learning (Squire, 2004), eliciting behavioral or attitudinal change (Yee, 2007) [...]

I just finished teaching a two week Computer Game Design course (as part of Summer Study at Penn State). It was a fun experience for the 15 high school students and myself alike. The students first designed and made board games in groups to learn basic game mechanics and principles, and then they moved on [...]