SLJ Summit 08 – Keynote for Saturday Breakfast
Scott Traylor (360KID website, 360blog), told us many new things about gaming.
Nintendo (Wii) normally not as violent as other gaming platforms by other companies.
Checkout some of Nintendo’s older stuff, i.e. the virtual boy.
Nintendo introduced the two screen hand-held earlier now they have the two screen touch screen.
Check out all the SIMS stuff: Sim city, the sims, sim earth, etc…
Spores (evolve from a spore into a space traveler to plant spores on other planets to evolve). http://www.childrenssoftware.com/pdf/101ctr-aug08.pdf
Gaming for alternative purposes – listserve
This was my favorite. Serious games many of which are free and online—very higher order thinking oriented but also engaging.
http://www.seriousgames.org/presentations/serious-games-taxonomy-2008_web.pdf
Games for change
Games for health
Ayiti life in Haiti, cannot win, hidden political issues.
Whyville
Diner Dash empathetic (epicentric)
Budget Hero (cannot win) fix national budget.
User Generated Content
Scratch
ItzaBitza
Kerpoof
At
School Library Journal Leadership Summit, 2008
Remixing Library Collections for Digital Youth
November 14-15, 2008
The Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa
Hollywood, Florida
