Tuesday, 15 July 2003
The impact of digital games in education
Looks like the digital games industry are trying to hijack the educational moral ground. Don't they make enough money by straight games sales? I've just come up against a games-culture-inspired story written by a child that it's impossible to put on an international website because of its xenophobia and violence.
posted by Helen Whitehead 1:08 PM
Monday, 14 July 2003
Some interesting multimedia :)
http://www.pitaru.com/
Creative movement and game-like art.
Tom Scarpino http://www.mixedmediaonline.com/pupupges/hyprtxt.htm
The Web can be used for so much more than just displaying traditional looking (linear) stories and poems. Poetry animated in Flash and Shockwave can be a pleasing revelation. I enjoy reading Flash poetry such as that from from Deena Larsen, Peter Howard, Poems that Go and Edleston Primary School. My most recent discovery is a series of very short pieces from Tom Scarpino, a Californian multimedia developer. Short and sweet reflections on life that could only work in the electronic medium.
Plus I am featured in the NGFL Favourite Sites column this week
http://www.ngfl.gov.uk/features.jsp?sec=15&cat=99&res=40341
posted by Helen Whitehead 11:26 AM
