All posts by Maura A. Smale

Maura Smale is Chief Librarian at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Announcements

Games Network Presentation at CUNY Digital Humanities Seminar

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We’re delighted to be presenting at the first meeting of the CUNY Digital Studies/Digital Humanities Seminar this semester. We’ll be discussing games-based learning in practice at CUNY on Tuesday, September 14th at 6:30-8:30pm at the CUNY Graduate Center. A fuller description and all the details are available over on the CUNY DHI website.

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Blog, In the News

Academic Commons Games Roundup

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There’s been lots of game-related content posted on the CUNY Academic Commons recently, and I thought it might be handy to highlight it here:

  • Andrew Boyarsky reminds us that every day is game day and in his post about games journalist Tom Chatfield’s TED Talk: “7 Ways Games Reward the Brain.”
  • Timothy E. Wilson reviews Martha Kinder’s 1991 book “Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games”. I hadn’t come across this book before–it’s interesting to read about these earlier works on kids and videogames.
  • Finally, Tony Picciano points us to an article on the Huffington Post about the benefits of families playing videogames together. As a parent and a gamer this seems spot on to me, though I must admit that now that my son’s getting older it can be harder for us to play together because he’s so much better at many games that we are. Live and learn!

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Information Literacy Games

The Information Literacy Game

One of the most widely-known games for library and research instruction is The Information Literacy Game, created by University of North Carolina at Greensboro librarians Scott Rice and Amy Harris. Anyone can play this web-based board game on the UNCG website, and the creators have also made the source files available for download so that any library can customize the game for its own campus.