Good Games

What Makes A Game Good?

To get started in 2015, the #Metagame Book Club + did a close reading and Hangout discussion of "What makes a Game Good?" on

Why a Hangout and discussion on Good Games?

Well....edWeb celebrated their Game Based Learning Community's 50th Webinar and had Jim Gee,  Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies and Regents’ Professor at Arizona State University as the speaker.

We won't let any opportunity to login and hear Jim Gee be ignored! If you missed the webinar, here is a link to the recording.

Our discussion will center around these readings and recordings. You don't have to read all of them. Also please let us know anything additional that you would like to add.

Readings:

Big "G" Games Blog post 12/10/12 http://www.jamespaulgee.com/node/63

Dean Groom's blog post Playing, Learning and PBL

https://deangroom.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/playing-learning-and-pbl/

Amy Bruckman conference presentation on "Can Educational Be Fun?

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Amy.Bruckman/papers/conference/bruckman-gdc99.pdf

Citation: Bruckman, Amy (1999). "Can Educational Be Fun?" Game Developer's Conference, San Jose, California, March 17th, 1999.

Videos:

James Paul Gee on Learning with Video Games (8:08) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnEN2Sm4IIQ

Jim Gee Principles on Gaming (23:38) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQAgAjTozk

Webinars:

edWeb's Big G Games with Jim Gee http://www.instantpresenter.com/edweb/EB55DC87814E

edWeb's Gaming for Literacy! CCSS and Text Complexity in Video Games with Lee Ann Tysseling

Recording Link and Slides http://www.edweb.net/.5a0ab4a6/