Women Playing Poker
I played in a women's Texas Hold 'Em poker event at Foxwoods this weekend. I played well but I often felt as though I was fighting against my upbringing as…
Lifelong Kindergarten
I'm on sabbatical for the Spring 2018 semester. My first sabbatical project, getting my knee replaced, began in earnest on January 12 and I've made great progress on it over…
Play, Standardized Testing and Wall Street
A student from my Creating Games class came to my office today to talk about the keynote speech from a conference he had recently attended. The speaker was lamenting the…
Games and Lessons for Life
I am a sucker for stories about the relationship between games and life. When I was a graduate student, a story in the Tallahassee Democrat about the life of Warrick…
3D Eye Surgery (or I am a Fool)
Media outlets of all types see April 1st of each year as a time to play with their audiences. These stories rarely "catch" me because they typically have to be…
We Are Playing a Game
One of my blog buddies, the fabulous Caroline Bender (she of Drawing In fame), wrote an entry yesterday about the "game" she and I have been playing on Facebook. I…
Summer Play
As I've mentioned before, I'm chairing a panel at NeMLA in April about using Web 2.0 technologies to play. Because of this panel, I've spent much of my summer playing…
