Comments on: PacMan worketh http://charlottejones.net/blog/pacman-worketh/ college teaching tools for the hip traditionalist Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:19:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Fastest Gaming Computers http://charlottejones.net/blog/pacman-worketh/#comment-329 Fastest Gaming Computers Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:12:36 +0000 http://charlottejones.net/blog/?p=41#comment-329 <strong>Computer Games Can Help You in School. No, Really!...</strong> Almost everyone says that computer games are bad for you. But some games you can have fun playing can also help you in school, and in life, if you let them.... Computer Games Can Help You in School. No, Really!…

Almost everyone says that computer games are bad for you. But some games you can have fun playing can also help you in school, and in life, if you let them….

]]> By: Charlotte http://charlottejones.net/blog/pacman-worketh/#comment-19 Charlotte Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:26:16 +0000 http://charlottejones.net/blog/?p=41#comment-19 Ooooh. This made me think about Chris Dede's talk at ELI and the example that he gave of a capstone project at MIT where students went out on campus with mobile handheld computers looking for clues to an environmental health mystery. On a much smaller scale to begin with, it occurs to me that students could be sent out into the library after a classroom session to actually find journal articles. On the down side, (just thinking out loud, here) this sounds awfully like the dreaded library scavenger hunt, which sends shivers of aversion down the spine of every reference librarian. Why? 1) The objects of the hunt are often outside of the context of any other assignment in the course so the exercise feels like busy work. 2) The objects and/or the "steps" in the hunt are built on a professor's often outdated knowledge of the state of library research. (Granted it is hard to keep up.) Let's pursue this! Ooooh. This made me think about Chris Dede’s talk at ELI and the example that he gave of a capstone project at MIT where students went out on campus with mobile handheld computers looking for clues to an environmental health mystery. On a much smaller scale to begin with, it occurs to me that students could be sent out into the library after a classroom session to actually find journal articles. On the down side, (just thinking out loud, here) this sounds awfully like the dreaded library scavenger hunt, which sends shivers of aversion down the spine of every reference librarian. Why? 1) The objects of the hunt are often outside of the context of any other assignment in the course so the exercise feels like busy work. 2) The objects and/or the “steps” in the hunt are built on a professor’s often outdated knowledge of the state of library research. (Granted it is hard to keep up.) Let’s pursue this!

]]> By: Jim http://charlottejones.net/blog/pacman-worketh/#comment-17 Jim Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:54:50 +0000 http://charlottejones.net/blog/?p=41#comment-17 This makes a lot of sense. Research as a gaming. Part of promoting this idea would entail cool librarians like yourself, and database interfaces that acknowledge and engage this aspect of scholarly work. I like this train of thought a lot. This makes a lot of sense. Research as a gaming. Part of promoting this idea would entail cool librarians like yourself, and database interfaces that acknowledge and engage this aspect of scholarly work. I like this train of thought a lot.

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