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I’ve been a little remiss about posting the launch announcement for a project that a colleague and I in my department have been working on. Here is the “press release”
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Blogs for Learning Launches
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Blogs for Learning (http://www.blogsforlearning.msu.edu) is a robust community based online resource dedicated to providing information on the technical and [...]
Neil Gaiman – easily one of the best storytellers of our age – has a really interesting piece in the New York Times on ghost stories.
Check it out here (apologies for not posting the actual link, but it is quite long)
For more of his stuff, I would personally recommend the 1602 story he penned for [...]
Apparently the story published in the Lansing State Journal on the GEL lab (Games for Entertainment & Learning Lab) was picked up by the AP, and is making its rounds on other papers. The first one we’ve noticed is the Chicago Tribute (free registration required).
very cool.
While it certainly isn’t the Globe & Mail or the New Your Times, my research lab (the Games for Entertainment & Learning Lab) at Michigan State University has gotten a front page writeup in the Lansing State Journal. The reported, Matt Miller, did a really nice job with the article. It also features a very [...]
I never thought in a million years that I would ever like Guitar Hero. I’ve never been a fan of the party theme controller games (aka. Dance Dance Revolution or Karaoke Revolution). However, ever since we got a PS2, the game, and a couple of Guitar Hero controllers in the lab, I’ve loved [...]
Well, after many many months of waiting and anticipating, Marvel has announced a new ongoing Alpha Flight series…but it aint Alpha Flight…its going to be Omega Flight. During the Civil War panel at the big Toronto Con, Bendis (et al) announced that in 2007, Marvel would be launching the ongoing Omega Flight series. Its going [...]
Blogger (http://www.blogger.com), Google’s trailblazing hosted blog service, is going to be getting a facelift in the near future. While the “new” Blogger will retain its easy to use and accessible interface, it will feature some new an innovative features (relative to its current incarnation).
Access Control
Up until this point, there was no real [...]
Anyone has has even a moderately active blog gets all sorts of crazy blog spam. Some deal with it by moderating all comments…some use a blacklist program of some sort. I use Akismet (which is by far and away the most awesome thing so even happen to the blogspehere). Well, I did [...]
I recently stumbled across Vanilla (http://getvanilla.com), an open source, standards compliant, ajax-ified discussion forum. Vanilla is all that its creators (http://lussumo.com/) promise. The requirements are light weight – all you need is PHP and a mySQL database. Installation is simple – just a matter of uploading the files, and then pointing your [...]
