A Message by Cathy Arreguin

I just viewed a 22 minute video produced by the Orange County (California) Department of Education, Educational Technology group. Titled " Games in Education" this video deals with the educational impact of using educational video games in the classroom and features interviews by Clark Aldrich, Dr. James Gee ( University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Dr. Henry Jenkins (MIT). It also features comments by Dave "Fargo" Kosak (GameSpy.com) and an interview by a high school teacher who details his use of video games aligned with State Standards.

It does a good job of discussing both affordances and constraints and has many fascinating ideas that might bear fruition in a SL environment. Interestingly, at one point, as Dr. Jenkins is
speaking, a few SL video clips are shown!

The video is currently hosted by permission on Google Video:

Cathy Arreguin, USDU
(SL: Mari Asturias)