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State of the Instructional Art

August 28, 2012 Jess Leave a comment

Since I wrote about Dread, I’ve found myself noticing instructional design choices in role-playing games – and realizing that there’s…

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Posted in: Games, Teaching Filed under: instructional design, role-playing games

Install This Extension!

November 15, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

My brilliant friend Danielle made a thing! A really cool, mind-blowing, brain-breaking thing! Jailbreak the Patriarchy is a Chrome extension that…

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Posted in: Teaching, Think Tank Filed under: gender

Happy Belated Ada Lovelace Day!

October 12, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

Thanks to the Jewish holidays, I’m way behind on just about everything – including celebrating Ada Lovelace day. So I’m…

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Posted in: Personal, Teaching Filed under: ada lovelace day, feminism, science, teaching

Good Questions at the Seder Table

April 24, 2011 Jess 1 Comment

Six years ago, my partner and I decided to host our first Passover Seder. Although we spent the official Seder…

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Posted in: Teaching, Think Tank Filed under: passover, pedagogy, religion

Game Research Advice, High School Edition

April 11, 2011 Jess 3 Comments

I recently spoke to a group of secondary school students about game design. They had some great questions about games, but…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: advice, teaching

Teaching Game Design, Part VII

March 31, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

What do the students say about the course? What do they expect to get out of it? What do they find…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: game design, teaching, tgd

Teaching Game Design, Part VI

March 22, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

What is hard for the students to learn? What makes it hard? Is there a ’threshold’ effect in your course, so that…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: games, teaching, tgd

Teaching Game Design, Part V

March 16, 2011 Jess 1 Comment

What games do you use? What criteria do you use to choose games to analyse? To what extent do you let…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: game design, teaching, tgd

Teaching Game Design, Part IV

March 14, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

What do the students read (or watch) to learn theory or methods of analysis? My classes are a bit unusual on…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: game design, teaching, tgd

Strange Systems

March 11, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

There’s a fantastic article by Simon Strange in this month’s issue of Game Developer Magazine. He talks about how to…

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Posted in: Games, Teaching Filed under: game design, systems thinking

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