Five Lessons in Games Journalism: Lesson Three - To thine own self be true
Making games is a business. Promoting games is a business. Selling games is a business. Games Journalism is a business. When you get paid to do a job of work - that’s business. There is money involved in every part of the world of gaming and that money is very important. It’s the blood that flows through the veins of gaming. Maybe the heart is the excitement of playing, maybe the brain is the incredible creativity in games but in the veins courses pure cashola. The journalist though is expected
July 9, 2009 No Comments
Basic anatomy ‘baffles Britons’
Answers see bottom of the story Many people in the UK are unable to identify the location of their major organs, a study suggests.A team at King’s College London found public understanding of basic anatomy has not improved since a similar survey was conducted 40 years ago. Under 50% of the more than 700 people surveyed could correctly place the heart, BMC Family Practice reported. Under a third could place the lungs in their correct location, but more than 85% got the intestines right. There are
June 13, 2009 No Comments
Imagination and Literacy A Teachers Search for the Heart of Learning Practitioner Inquiry Series
Imagination and Literacy A Teachers Search for the Heart of Learning Practitioner Inquiry Series

This work investigates the imagination in the classroom to understand its function in literacy learning.
May 21, 2009 No Comments
Big Fucknozzle Trade Show
hits D.C. this week. For all nine-minutes of bullshit, faux-introspection chin-music that came from the Right about change, future and vision after they got hog-slaughtered in the last two elections, if you want to know what is really at the corrupt, oozy heart of the American Conservative movement (and its filthy little avatar, the Republican Party) look no further than their ideological trade show: the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. How do I know? ‘Cause Dick Cheney tel
February 22, 2009 No Comments
Protest the Oscars Because of Jerry Lewis
With all my heart, I’m asking you to do one thing. Don’t watch the Oscars this weekend. If you’re dying to find out the winners, I’m sure they’ll be announced on Twitter or somewhere else online right after each award is given out. This year, the Academy has gone too far. They are giving a Humanitarian Award to one of the LEAST deserving individuals on the planet. Jerry Lewis is NOT a humanitarian. Have no doubt, he has supported the MDA as their Spokesperson for the last 56 years for his own
February 21, 2009 No Comments