After 22 years of presenting contemporary, cutting-edge plays, The Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte has definitely established a reputation for being irreverent. Even Christmas is not immune from its slightly askew and whacky view of the world. ‘Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some!)’ manages to poke fun and satirize many of our Beloved Holiday […]
A recent Christian Science Monitor article profiled ‘News Games’ ‘ the emerging genre of non-fiction games that expose players to the news-making process and help them understand the complexity of issues in the news. Ian Bogost, the head of Persuasive Games, is an associate professor at Georgia Tech who classifies the roles and uses of […]
BREAKOUT REPORT Session 2: March 1, 2010 Facilitator: Kim Marcille Romaner, Founder, Possibilities, Inc. Scribe: Heidi Williamson, VP Communications, Berks County Community Foundation, Reading, PA Kim Marcille Romaner is working with the Miami-Dade Broadband Coalition to close the digital divide in the county and to improve broadband access in public anchor institutions like libraries and […]
This was first posted on the event site, infoneeds.org. Find more video and previous posts there. The event continues until this afternoon. Last night, Kati London and Kevin Slavin of the serious game development firm area/code talked about how games can change how we live in the real world. Kevin talked about the “fundamental cognitive […]
The new morning radio multi-platform news program The Takeaway, partially funded by Knight, has recently introduced a game on Facebook (the popular social networking service) called VeepStakes. Takeaway Web Editor Adnaan Wasey explains the game: If you already have a Facebook profile, you can start playing the game here. Look for more seriously fun content […]