07.10.08
Games and Gaming MIG recording
At ALA Annual 2008, I recorded the Games and Gaming MIG. I’ve edited out the business meeting and announcements about what was happening at that ALA. As it was a microphone in the middle of the room, the sound quality varies on how far away the participants were sitting.
You can listen to the meeting through the Internet Archive at
http://www.archive.org/download/alaannual2008gamesgamingmig/alaggmig2008.mp3
(Or listen in the Embedded Player at the Internet Archive)
Here are URLs for all of the projects mentioned in the Blatant Plug portion of the meeting:
- There is The Librarian guild on World of Warcraft, Kirin-Tor server. More information at http://thelibrarian.wowstead.com/
- The WhyGames wiki at http://whygames.pbwiki.com/ is the home to a research study being conducted by Liz Danforth about what people experience in a virtual world game.
- The Games, Learning and Society conference is being held July 10-11 in Madison, Wisconsin.
- The Gaming, Learning, and Libraries symposium, sponsored by ALA and the Verizon Foundation, will be Nov. 2-4 in Chicago, Illinois.
- Gencon Indy 2008 has an Education and Trade day on August 13th.
- Chris Harris is leading a project to map board games to New York state learning standards.
- Chris Harris is also giving a talk at Gencon about Games in Libraries. Anyone with information they would like Chris to share can e-mail him at infomancy@gmail.com
- The Serious Games Initiative has a Games for Health focus for those wanting to learn more about games designed to improve health.
- The International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations journal has a call for submissions.
- On the Cartoon Network website, there is a Game Creator tool that is very popular with kids.
- A conference was held in World of Warcraft, and a post-conference report is on Science’s site.
- November 15th is National Gaming @ Your Library Day. There will be a national videogame tournmament, and Hasbro will be donating 16,000 copies of Pictureka for libraries to use.
- The ALA Gaming blog is at http://gaming.ala.org/news/ and the ALA Gaming Wiki is at http://gaming.ala.org/resources/index.php
- The Library Game Lab of Syracuse has the results from last year’s surveys in the Publication section on http://gamelab.syr.edu. It is also hosting the Games in Libraries podcast, which can be found at http://gamesinlibraries.org.
Discuss this meeting over at the ALA Gaming Blog entry.
