Guest: Dr. Rob MacDougall
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Blogs
- Stacey Devlin, “My History Has More Templars Than Yours“
- Carla Watson, “The Benefits of the Inaccurate Videogame“
Articles/chapters
- Susan Engel, “Playing to Learn,” New York Times, 1 February 2010.
- Kevin Kee, “Computerized History Games: Narrative Options,” Simulation & Gaming (August 2011). (link should work on campus or by off-campus proxy)
- Tim Compeau and Rob MacDougall, “Tecumseh Lies Here: Goals and Challenges for a Pervasive History Game in Progress,” Playing With Technology in History Conference (Pastplay), 2010.
- James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning and Literacy Ch1 (Intro) and Ch 2 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). (The link to the ebook should work on campus or by off-campus proxy)
Blog
- Kelly, “You Were Warned,” edwired.org (18 December 2008).
- Kelly, “You Were Warned (cont’d),” edwired.org (12 January 2009).
- Kelly, “Pirates on YouTube,” edwired.org (17 February 2009).
- Kelly, “Was the Last American Pirate ‘Authentic’?” edwired.org (9 April 2010).
- Kelly, “Teaching Students to Commit Fraud,” edwired.org (14 December 2010).
- Kirschenbaum, “War, What is It Good For? Learning from Wargaming,” Play the Past (16 August 2011).
- MacDougall, “History at Play,” Old is the New New (27 June 2007).
- MacDougall, “Pastplay,” Old is the New New (5 May 2010).
- MacDougall, “Toys Not Games,” Old is the New New (25 May 2010).
- MacDougall, “The Action Figure Curriculum,” Old is the New New (28 May 2010).
- MacDougall, “Seeing Like SimCity,” Play the Past (26 January 2011).
- MacDougall, “Tecumsehs Curse (Chapter 1),” Play the Past (29 March 2011).
- MacDougall, “This is Not a Game,” Play the Past (17 May 2011).
- MacDougall, “Lies Here,” Play the Past (23 June 2011).
- McGonigal, “Why I Love Bees: A Case Study in Collective Intelligence Gaming,” in Katie Salen ed. ”The Ecology of Games” (MIT, 2007).
- Sample, “Platform Studies as Historical Inquiry, or, Videogames Bleed History,” Play the Past (23 August 2011).
- Visconti, “Secret Agents in the Schoolroom,” Play the Past (27 September 2011).
- Visconti, “This is Not a Game (But Play Nice!)” Play the Past (4 October 2011).
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