Lara L. Schenck
Computing education researcher, among other things
Tag: insomnia
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The Good Man – CSS3 animation
Fantastic audio/visual artwork, created by Pedro Ivo Hudson. via Awwwards
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Notes on the Principles of Game-like Learning
I just watched a great webinar at Connected Learning with Katie Salen who is a co-author of Rules of Play, and director of the Institute of Play. Below is a recording followed by some notes. Katie Salen: Making Learning Irresistible: 6 Principles of Game-like Learning Key Design Principles How do we to take a theory…
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An Interactive Guide to Blog Typography
via Sidebar (A daily email digest of the best 5 design links. Highly recommended.)
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Art and entertainment are not terms of type – they…
Art and entertainment are not terms of type – they are terms of intensity.
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Educational Games Research
Article: Learning to Play to Learn – Lessons in Educational Game Design by Eric Zimmerman and Nick Fortugno Excellent article summarizing the state of educational games. It addressing the split between educators and developers as well as the importance of using games to communicate process, not raw data: …if your aim is to create a…
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Listen to: improv4humans
Excellent podcast with founding member of Upright Citizens Brigade Matt Besser. Each episode features fantastic improvisers who break off into scenes as they discuss miscellaneous topics. Dirty humor is not uncommon, fyi.
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New Experiments in Self-teaching [TED Talk]
Indian education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education – the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we…
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Remove .php from URLs [Snippet]
When making custom sites, I separate my code into various php files that each include a consistent header and footer so that I don’t have to deal with verbose, redundant HTML files. By default you end up with gross URLs like mysite.com/contact.php. Make it mysite.com/contact by adding this to your .htaccess file and replacing index|about|..…
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Epic Small this week = Socrates + Game Mechanics
Epic what? Started by the brilliant Sam Wilson (a member of Catapult as well!), Epic Small helps you accomplish small creative tasks one at a time at week long intervals. Here’s an article by Kate Stoltzfus at Yinzpiration with some more info. I was on a roll with Epic Smalls a couple months ago…
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#1reasonwhy: what women deal with in the game industry
via Raph Koster’s Twitter Also check out this segment on NPR: Online Harassment Gets Real For Girl Gamers
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A Template for Analyzing Game Design
A note about analyzing vs. reviewing a game: an analysis mainly consists of what is actually present in the game, not what you think should be. Pick it apart and see what choices the designer made and think about why. I figured it’d be helpful to have a template for guidance when critiquing a game.…
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What if Wes Anderson directed Star Wars?
It would be amazing. via kottke.org