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Teaching Game Design, Part III

March 9, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

At what level is the course (or courses) taught? What are the overall learning goals of the course? What will your students…

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

Teaching Game Design, Part II

March 8, 2011 Jess 1 Comment

Describe your course and the game analysis exercises briefly, in your own words. I created the game design course sequence for…

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

Teaching Game Design, Part I

March 7, 2011 Jess 2 Comments

A few weeks ago, the inimitable Annika Waern started a discussion online about teaching game analysis. I’ve been thinking about…

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

Impostor-Shaped Hole

December 19, 2010 Jess Leave a comment

Over on Laurian Vega’s blog, she shares a story about a student who undervalues her own work because of Impostor…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: gender, impostor

Design for Neighborliness

November 5, 2010 Jess 2 Comments

This morning, the boy sent me this post about what works for political campaigns.  I don’t know where the information is coming from,…

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Posted in: Games, Teaching, Think Tank Filed under: game design, politics, project

Thinking about Criticism

June 23, 2010 Jess Leave a comment

I just read “In Praise of Tough Criticism” over on the Chronicle.  I almost didn’t make it more than two…

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Posted in: Teaching, Think Tank Filed under: academia

Electing the Smart Guy

May 4, 2010 Jess Leave a comment

Ill Doctrine, of all people, got me wondering: can we fix our cultural hostility to electing smart people to office…

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Posted in: Teaching, Think Tank Filed under: intelligence, learning, politics, project, school

GDC 2010 Report: Women in Games Edition

March 19, 2010 Jess Leave a comment

I’m involved in the Games2Girls project, which introduces middle school girls to careers in game development.  It’s a great project,…

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Posted in: Games2Girls Filed under: collaboration, gender

Useful Presentation Tips

February 10, 2010 Jess Leave a comment

A friend sent me a link to this great post on giving presentations.  I’ve got some major presentations coming up…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: conference, presentation

Stanley Strogatz Teaches Math!

February 2, 2010 Jess Leave a comment

On a completely different topic, I’m terribly excited about the Stanley Strogatz math-education series in the Times. I can’t wait…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: math

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