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Can Games Teach The News?

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One journalism school intends to find out.

On the first day of class this semester at Arizona State’s Cronkite School of Journalism, eight students didn't practice nut grafs, or read “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold“, or learn the basics of search engine optimization.

They played video games.

Specifically, they played TellTale Games' award-winning The Walking Dead, the epidemiology simulator Plague Inc., and the provocative news game September 12.

Retha Hill is the director of the school's New Media Innovation Lab, and this semester, her lab is making news-based video games.

“While journalism has long incorporated some kind of gaming into its culture with crossword puzzles, word searches and even news quizzes, the potential for games for journalism is not fully – or even partially – realized,” Hill says.

Two months into the semester, Hill's class has outlined an “enhanced interrogation” decision-making game that puts the player in the role of an American intelligence officer who has to choose the degree of physical force to use against a prisoner with knowledge of an imminent terrorist attack. The idea is to teach the conflicts that give rise to the news through the principles of interactivity.

The torture game isn't on a screen, yet; right now it's pages and pages of dialog and the decision trees and branching rule sets that define the structure of the game.

It's effective, Hill says, because “you're drawing on your own moral code.”

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News games aren’t totally novel; there are well-regarded games from Wired (Cutthroat Capitalism, which “explains the economics of Somali piracy by putting the player in command of a pirate ship“), and, reaching further back, Garry Trudeau (The 1996 Doonesbury Election Simulator put the player in the role of a campaign manager for either Bill Clinton or Bob Dole). The games academic Ian Bogost co-authored a book about them.

The problem with most news games, though, according to Hill, is that “they're not particularly compelling.”

Another of the class' games attempts to address this problem. It borrows the frantic structure of Space Invaders but instead of alien lasers, the player is bombarded with spending requests and attempts to protect the federal budget. You lose, Hill says, “if you burst through the debt ceiling. Or if you raise the poverty level too high.”

Hill, who cut her teeth in the 1990s at WashingtonPost.com (and helped mock up a never-released version of Sim City dedicated to DC), had long wanted to create a course dedicated to news games. The opportunity presented itself last year when Arizona State opened the Center for Games and Impact, which researches the intersection of games and society. She teaches the lab in collaboration with Juli James and Adam Ingram-Goble of the center.

The ultimate goal of Hill's class is to create an adaptable framework for newsgames that smaller news organizations, lacking in-house interactive staff, could easily apply to local issues.

“Not everyone is the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal,” Hill says. “We want to give small companies tools to build their own games.”

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Teach Your Kids: The Alphabet Of Star Wars Silhouettes

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Author: Rod Sutherland

J.J. Abrams is going to direct the new Star Wars movie and this is an alphabetic poster of Star Wars silhouettes created by graphic artist Patrick Concepcion. You can buy a print of it at Patrick’s Etsy shop HERE and teach your kids the alphabet via Star Wars. Fun! Then you can post a Youtube video of them naming all the characters on the chart and I’ll be sure to leave a rude comment like, “WHATEVER, THEY JUST MEMORIZED THE SHAPES” before retreating back to Castle Butthurt for a nap.

Thanks to Robert, learned the alphabet the 80′s way: with those anthropomorphic letters your teacher sticky-tacked up above the chalkboard.

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Adafruit’s Circuit Playground show to teach kids about electronics with cute components

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Author: Randy Miller

Adafruit currently welcomes newbies to diy gadget society, however it still assumes a particular quantity of convenience with coding and soldering. The shop now wishes to accommodate one of the most basic of beginners by starting a youngsters’s internet collection that educates electronics. Circuit Play ground will offer tasks, songs and stories that place a friendly face on engineering, in some methods really directly: numerous of the programs will involve big-eyed characters (and, normally, corresponding toys) like Cappy the Capacitor. Although the series does not start until March, it could possibly be important to a generation of children expanding up immersed in modern technology– and eventually produce a bigger client base for Adafruit in the process.

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Sams Teach Yourself iTunes 10 in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself — Minutes)

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Author: Brian McKinnell

Sams Teach Yourself iTunes 10 in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself– Minutes)

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Teva – You Can’t Teach This (Yousef’s Circus Rework) OUT NOW!!!

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Author: Jesus Sargent

ALiVErecordings — April 11, 2010 — Get it now at Beatport.com www.beatport.com Jay Gilbert is a classically trained DJ, Producer and studio engineer, and is a name synonymous with the new wave of young UK Production talent. Having excelled in his music production and engineering studies, and begun a burgeoning DJ career, it was only a matter of time before we saw his first releases. His music first found a home on Jim Rivers’ Misfit imprint and soon found favour with the likes of Hernan Cattano, Nick Warren and Steve Angello. His current work under his ‘No Brainer’ alias has also found great success for both him as an artist and ALiVE Recordings. With Laurent Garnier, Yousef and Joris Voorn all lending their support, his talent behind the studio desk has already led to Groove Armada commissioning him for a remix on their recent ‘I Won’t Kneel’ single. Under his Teva pseudonym, Jay intends to focus on his musical roots and his mastery of the Piano, to create a more live and organic sound in both his productions and live shows. Today’s release ‘You Can’t Teach This’ sees this put into practice in the finest of ways. Great bongo work and underlying keys that open in full force as the track progresses. Its construction and female vocal give it an oldskool spin, but its sounds fresh for todays floors. On the remix we have Circus head honcho, Yousef. Fresh from his releases on Cocoon and Saved, he returns to rework ‘You Can’t Teach This’. Giving the original a real warehouse …
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Nokia and Microsoft create AppCampus to teach devs how to make more Metro apps

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Author: Anthony Kristo

Windows Phone may be picking up the pace in the hardware department thanks to some Nokia know-how, but the platform still lags behind its competition in the apps department. Team Redmond and team Espoo are taking steps to remedy that dearth of software, however, with their new AppCampus development program. The program will call Finland’s Aalto University home, and is being created to provide design and technological support in addition to business coaching to help app developers build quality apps that make money. (Sound familiar?) In keeping with the motive to help developers grow their businesses, the program lets devs who utilize its services keep all the IP rights in their apps as well. AppCampus isn’t only preaching the Windows Phone gospel either, folks wanting to code for Symbian and Series 40 are invited, too. Of course, supporting such a program isn’t cheap, which is why both Microsoft and Nokia are kicking in 9 million euros ($ 12 million) each to make it happen. It’s a good start, guys, but you’ve got a long way to go.

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