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Folks Directly Involved in Serious Games for teaching and learning:

Clark Aldrich

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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>Clark  Aldrich<br></b><img border=0 width=51 height=26

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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Lead the international team that created  SimuLearn's <a href="http://www.simulearn.net/SimuLearn/standalone.htm">Virtual

Leader</a>; Aldrich speaks, writes, and does consulting work on e-learning issues. [<a href=“http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=bio&id=4702”>http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=bio&id=4702</a>] [<a href=“http://www.simulearn.net/SimuLearn/simulearn_home_page.htm”>http://www.simulearn.net/SimuLearn/simulearn_home_page.htm</a>]</font></p>

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Patrik Bergman

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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>Patrik  Bergman<br clear=all>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><a href="http://195.178.239.119/lutpers/FMPro?-db=lutpersonal.fp5&-format=detaljerad.htm&-lay=kort&-sortfield=f%f6rnamn&-max=350&-recid=33115&-findall=">Patrik Bergman</a><br>
						<a href="http://www.mah.se/templates/Page____13084.aspx">School of Teacher Education</a> at <a href="http://www.mah.se/default____12978.aspx">Malm&ouml; University</a><br>

					Doctorate student in pedagogy on how Internet based role-playing games and collaborative environments can be used to get young people to discuss and understand complex ethical questions. Member of Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and International Game Developers Association (IGDA).<br>
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Jim Bizzocchi

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=bizzocchi></a><a  href="http://www.surrey.sfu.ca/about/people/faculty/JimBizzochi.html"><img border=0 width=75  height=112 id="_x0000_i1029" src="../KB/Resources/People/bizzicchi.jpeg"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Jim
Bizzocchi<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Assistant Professor, Interactive Arts, SFU,
Interests: Interactive Narrative; Critical Analysis of Interactive
Experience; The Craft Of Game Design; Production Aesthetics for Large
Flat-screen Video Display; Educational Technology and Distributed Learning [<a
href="http://www.surrey.sfu.ca/about/people/faculty/JimBizzochi.html">http://www.surrey.sfu.ca/about/people/faculty/JimBizzochi.html</a>]</font></p>
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Ian Bogost

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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>Ian
Bogost<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Ian Bogost is an academic game researcher,
game designer, and educational publisher. Starting this fall, Dr. Bogost is
Assistant Professor in the Information Design &amp; Technology program at
Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches and researches on
videogames. Bogost is also the founder of two companies, Persuasive Games, a
game studio that designs, builds, and distributes electronic games for
persuasion, instruction, and activism; and Open Texture, a publisher of
cross-media education and enrichment materials for families. The former CTO
of one of LA's top interactive marketing companies, Bogost has nearly a
decade of experience in digital media production for film, music, games,
advertising, and eBusiness. <a
href="http://www.watercoolergames.org/about.shtml">http://www.watercoolergames.org/about.shtml</a></font></p>
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Amy Bruckman

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href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Amy.Bruckman/"><span style='text-decoration:
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Amy
Bruckman<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Associate Professor at the
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member of the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU) Center. My
research applies the &quot;constructionist&quot; philosophy of education to
the design of online communities. [<a
href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Amy.Bruckman/">http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Amy.Bruckman/</a>]</font></p>
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David Buckingham

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href="http://www.ccsonline.org.uk/mediacentre/Staff/main.html"><span
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">David
Buckingham<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><a
href="http://www.childrenyouthandmediacentre.co.uk/staff.asp?TableName=Overview&RowID=9&PeopleID=1">Director</a>, <a
href="http://www.childrenyouthandmediacentre.co.uk/">Centre for the Study
of Children, Youth and Media</a>, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of
Education, University of London, School of Culture, Language and
Communications</font></p>
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Alex Chisolm

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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Alex Chisolm<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Leapfrog Enterprises Ltd. Educational Games and Devices</font></p>
				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">[<a href="http://www.leapfrog.com">http://www.leapfrog.com</a>]</font></p>
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Suzanne de Castell

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href="http://www.educ.sfu.ca/fri/decastell/"><span style='text-decoration:
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Suzanne
de Castell<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Studying relations between representational
tools, institutions and practices, and the epistemological

‘foundations’ of education is central to my work, which has

involved, most recently, a 3 year, SSHRC-funded study of gender, schooling,
and new information technologies and the SHRC-funded development of on line
instructional resources for teachers http://www.discoverit.org/c41/. This
research received a B.C. Partnerships Award as well as the &quot;Pioneer in
Technology and New Media&quot; award by Wired Woman, a national organization
for women in technology. [ <a href="http://www.educ.sfu.ca/fri/decastell/">http://www.educ.sfu.ca/fri/decastell/</a>
]</font></p>
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Mike Dobson

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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>Mike Dobson</b></font><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><br>
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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"> The main concern in my research is the relationship between social organization, learning and performance &#150; that is, the constitutive elements and affects of context and how they can be reliably transformed to improve learning and action. Early work in interaction science relied on simple structural and single cognitive models of skill acquisition and recall that for the most part have been succeeded by better holist and complex cognitive perspectives.  [ <a href="http://www.sfu.ca/%7emdobson/">http://www.sfu.ca/~mdobson/</a>]</font></td>
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Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen

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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>Simon
Egenfeldt-Nielsen<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen Psychologist, Just finished (2006) a PhD thesis on the educational potential of computer games taking commercial titles as the starting point. Has written several articles on computer games, children, education, and learning since 1997. He is the author of two Danish books on computer games, and regularly gives talk on the subject both nationally and internationally. Board member of Digital Game Research Association, co-founder of Game-Research.com, editor of Ivory tower column, and a founding member of Center for Computer Games Research Copenhagen. [<a href="http://www.itu.dk/people/sen/index.htm">http://www.itu.dk/people/sen/index.htm</a>]</font></p>
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Deb Fels

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			<td bgcolor="white"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Deb Fels<br>
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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Her research interests include human factors, user interface design and the use of multi-media interfaces as applied in the rehabilitation field with an emphasis on access to computers for people with disabilities. Much of her research activity is carried out in conjunction with BMC in Toronto and the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto. [ <a href="http://www.ryerson.ca/itm/fcty/Fels/Fels.html">http://www.ryerson.ca/itm/fcty/Fels/Fels.html</a> ]</font></td>

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Gonzalo Frasca

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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Gonzalo
Frasca<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Gonzalo Frasca is a videogame researcher
and developer, currently working at the Center for Computer Games Research at
the <a href="http://game.itu.dk/">IT University in Copenhagen</a>. He's
co-founder and senior producer of Powerful Robot Games, a videogame
development studio. He has recently produced and co-designed the first
official videogame ever commissioned for a U.S. Presidential Campaign. (<a
href="http://ludology.org/staticpages/index.php?page=20030129004146960">more
about me</a>)</font></p>
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Lisa Galarneau

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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Lisa
Galarneau<br clear=all>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Lisa Galarneau is a doctoral candidate in New Zealand's University of Waikato Screen and Media Studies department and a
student researcher in the University's post-graduate games research lab.
Leveraging her previous academic work in education and socio-cultural
anthropology, as well as extensive professional experience in online learning
design and development, her research is looking at spontaneous communities of
learning in and around massively multiplayer online games. In addition, Lisa
lectures in Mass Communication at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand,
as well as acting as consultant and advisor to various commercial and
non-profit organisations. [<a href="http://socialstudygames.com/">http://socialstudygames.com/</a>]</font></p>
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James Paul Gee

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=gee></a><a
href="http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/edpsych/facstaff/gee.htm"><span
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">James
Paul&nbsp;Gee<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"> University  of  Wisconsin Madison  Educational Psychology ( learning and literacy in  video and computer games. ) [<a

href=“http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/edpsych/facstaff/gee.htm”>http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/edpsych/facstaff/gee.htm</a>]</font></p>

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David Gibson

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					<a name="gibson"></a><a href="http://www.edutopia.org/php/fapeople.php?id=C522182"><img src="../KB/Resources/People/fa_gibson.jpg" alt="" width="75" border="0"></a></div>
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			<td bgcolor="white"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">David Gibson<br>
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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">David Gibson, EdD, oversees all phases and aspects of the simSchool project: professional development, planning and implementation, educational research and evaluation, application development and deployment, budgeting, staff-performance and project-performance monitoring, communications, dissemination, and sustainability. At the Vermont Institutes, Gibson is director of research and development, concentrating on partnership development and new programs, systems analysis, evaluation, higher-education reform, and statewide professional-development planning. [<a href="http://www.edutopia.org/php/fapeople.php?id=C522182">http://www.edutopia.org/php/fapeople.php?id=C522182</a>]</font></td>

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Carrie Heeter

			<td bgcolor="white"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Carrie Heeter<br>
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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">I am founding Director of the Communication Technology Laboratory and Creative Director for Michigan State University's Virtual University Design and Technology group. I am also Professor of Digital Media Arts in the Department of Telecommunication where I teach online design and design research courses. I live in San Francisco, using communication technologies to &quot;telerelate&quot; with colleagues, students, and friends in Michigan and elsewhere.  [<a href="http://commtechlab.msu.edu/principals/carrie.html">http://commtechlab.msu.edu/principals/carrie.html</a>]</font></td>

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Henry Jenkins III

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=jenkins></a><span
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none;text-underline:none'><a href="http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/index.html"><img border=0 width=75 id="_x0000_i1046"
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Henry
Jenkins III<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Director, Comparative Media Studies
Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Co-Director, Education  Arcade <a href="http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/index.html">http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/</a></font></p>
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Jennifer Jenson

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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Jennifer Jenson<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Assistant Professor of Pedagogy and Technology, Faculty of Education, York University,  Toronto, Ontario Research Interests: Pedagogy and technology; Gender equity and technology; Multimedia and online content/design issues in education; Educational gaming; General issues in technology education<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">[<a href="http://www.cea-ace.ca/foc.cfm?subsection=map&page=ove&subpage=jje">http://www.cea-ace.ca/foc.cfm?subsection=map&amp;page=ove&amp;subpage=jje</a>] [<a href="http://www.yorku.ca/foe/People/Faculty/ProfilesFac/JenniferJenson/index.html">http://www.yorku.ca/foe/People/Faculty/ProfilesFac/JenniferJenson/index.html</a>]</font></p>
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Yasmin Kafai

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<p ><a name=kafai></a><a href="http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kafai/"><img src="../KB/Resources/People/yasmin-kafai.jpeg" alt="" width="75" border="0"></a></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>Yasmin
Kafai<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Associate Professor of Learning and
Instruction at the  Graduate School  of Education &amp; Information Studies at
the  University  of  California ,  Los  Angeles, where she also directs the KIDS research
project. <a href="http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kafai/">http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kafai/</a></font></p>
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David Kaufman

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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">David
Kaufman<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Simon Fraser U, PI on SAGE, Director,
Learning and Instructional Development Centre [<a
href="http://www.sfu.ca/lidc/new_lidc/people/kaufman.html">http://www.sfu.ca/lidc/new_lidc/people/kaufman.html</a>]</font></p>
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Mike Katchabaw

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			<td bgcolor="white"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Mike Katchabaw<br>
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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">My research focuses on the area of computing environment design and implementation. Drawing on the broader areas of operating systems, networking, distributed computing, and software engineering, this research is primarily concerned with providing users with a vehicle for modern computing. [<a href="http://www.csd.uwo.ca/People/katchab.shtml">http://www.csd.uwo.ca/People/katchab.shtml]</a></font></td>

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John Kirriemuir

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=kirriemuir></a><a
href="http://www.ceangal.com/"><span style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><img border=0 width=75 height=84 id="_x0000_i1056"
src="../KB/Resources/People/johntree.jpg"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">John
Kirriemuir<br>
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src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/scotland.jpeg"></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">I carry out independent research,
consultancy and writing into the educational aspects of computer and video
games, ICT (Information and Communications Technology) and rural Scottish
issues. [<a href="http://www.silversprite.com/games-and-learning/">http://www.silversprite.com/games-and-learning/</a>]</font></p>
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Eric Klopfer

<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=klopfer></a><span
style='font-family:Verdana'><a
href="http://dusp.mit.edu/DUSP/main/page.lasso?db=home.fp3&amp;MMNo=3&amp;MM=Faculty/Staff&amp;SMNo=2&amp;SM=faculty&amp;TM=Klopfer&amp;bodyType=detail.lasso&amp;dbedit=faculty.fp3&amp;email=klopfer@mit.edu&amp;gcolor=993366&amp;site="><span
style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75
height=109 id="_x0000_i1058" src="../KB/Resources/People/klopfer.jpg"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Eric
Klopfer<br>
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src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-us.GIF"></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">MIT Teacher Education Program [<a
href="http://education.mit.edu/">http://education.mit.edu/</a>] Current
Research: Teachers building and using computer simulations for science
education. Using handheld and wearable computers to engage learners in
simulations.</font></p>
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Rikke Magnussen

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					<p style='text-align:center'><a name="rikke"></a><img border=0
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<p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Rikke Magnussen<br clear=all>
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src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/denmark.jpeg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1132"></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Rikke coordinates Centre for Learning Games
at the Math and Science Consortium. Centre for Learning Games is the common
name for Learning Lab Denmark’s game research- and development projects. The main goal of these projects is
to investigate how games support science learning. Lately she has been
co-developer and main researcher on the IT-supported role-playing game
Homicide, a forensic homicide investigation game for cross-subject teaching
of math, Danish and science. She has also followed the development of an
educational multiplayer game designed for mathematics education and studied
how students transform the rules of the game to accommodate social
interaction. [<a href="http://www.lld.dk/portal_memberdata/RMA">http://www.lld.dk/portal_memberdata/RMA</a>]</font></p>
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Tom McCormack

				<p align=center style="text-align:center"><a name=mccormack></a><a href="http://www.muzzylane.com/company/who-we-are.htm"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><img border=0 width=75 height=76 id="_x0000_i1098" src="../KB/Resources/People/tom-mccormack.jpeg"></span></a></p>
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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Tom McCormack<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Muzzy Lane Software [<a href="http://www.muzzylane.com/company/who-weare.htm">http://www.muzzylane.com/company/who-we-are.htm</a>]</font></p>
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Angela McFarlane

			<td bgcolor="white" width=75><a name="mcfarlane"></a><a href="http://www.bris.ac.uk/education/people/academicStaff/edaemf"><img src="../KB/Resources/People/mcfarlane.jpg" alt="" width="75" border="0"></a></td>
			<td bgcolor="white"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Angela McFarlane<br>
						<img border=0 width=50 height=33 id="_x0000_i1036"
src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/greatbritain.gif"></font></b></td>
			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Angela McFarlane has designed and directed a number of highly successful educational software development projects. Content has included science, language and health education and the resulting interactive resources all became commercially successful products. Research Interests: ICT in Education, learners, learning and new technologies, e-Learning and the educational use of games software. Biography: Professor of Education &amp; Director of Learning Technology at the University of Bristol since October 2000, previously Director of the Centre for Research in Educational ICT, Homerton College, Cambridge, and Director for Evidence and Practice, Becta. <a href="http://www.bris.ac.uk/education/people/academicStaff/edaemf">http://www.bris.ac.uk/education/people/academicStaff/edaemf</a><br>
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Seymour Papert

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=papert></a><a
href="http://www.papert.org/"><span style='font-family:Verdana;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75 height=113 id="_x0000_i1062"
src="../KB/Resources/People/seymour.gif"></a></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b><span
  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Seymour</b><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Papert<br>
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src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-us.GIF"></b></font></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Papert is considered the world's foremost
expert on how technology can provide new ways to learn. He has carried out
educational projects on every continent, some of them in remote villages in
developing countries. He is a participant in developing the most influential
cutting-edge opportunities for children to participate in the digital world.
He serves on the advisory boards for <a href="http://www.mamamedia.com/">MaMaMedia</a>
Inc. (whose founder, Idit Harel, was once a doctoral student of his at MIT)
and of the <a href="http://www.legomindstorms.com/">LEGO Mindstorms</a>
product line (which was named after Papert's seminal book Mindstorms:
Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas).&nbsp;<a
href="http://www.media.mit.edu/people/bio_papert.html">http://www.media.mit.edu/people/bio_papert.html</a><br>

Also: <a href="http://www.papert.org/">http://www.papert.org/</a></font></p>
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Jim Parker

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=parker></a><a
href="http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/%7eparker"><span style='font-family:Verdana;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75 height=99
id="_x0000_i1064" src="../KB/Resources/People/mafia_jim.jpg"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Jim
Parker<br>
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src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-cdn-2.jpeg"></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Computer science professor, created the
first University course on computer game programming in Canada. Now
does research work on games for teaching, user interfaces (vision, gesture),
game audio and music, emotion detection, immersive games. UofCalgary <a

href=“http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/%7eparker”>http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~parker</a></font></p>

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Celia Pearce

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=pearce></a><a
href="http://www.cpandfriends.com/"><span style='text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75 height=75 id="_x0000_i1066"
src="../KB/Resources/People/celia-photo.jpg"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Celia
Pearce<br>
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src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-us.GIF"></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Games Designer, artist researcher,

Teacher University of California at Irvine [<a

href="http://www.cpandfriends.com/">http://www.cpandfriends.com/</a>]</font></p>
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Andy Phelps

			<td bgcolor="white"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Andy Phelps<br>

<img border=0 width=50 height=26 id=“_x0000_i1067”

src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-us.GIF"></font></b></td>

<td bgcolor=“white”><font size=“-1” face=“Verdana,Helvetica,Arial”>Andrew Phelps is an Assistant Professor in the Information Technology Dept. at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is also a Research Director for the Laboratory for Graphical Simulation, Visualization, and Virtual Worlds within the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. He is the founding faculty member of the Game Programming Concentration within the College of Computing [ <a href=“http://andysgi.rit.edu/”>http://andysgi.rit.edu/</a> ][ <a href=“http://social.it.rit.edu/people/faculty/andy_phelps.php”>http://social.it.rit.edu/people/faculty/andy_phelps.php</a> ]</font></td>

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Marc Prensky

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=prensky></a><a
href="http://www.marcprensky.com"><span style='font-family:Verdana;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75 height=89
id="_x0000_i1068" src="../KB/Resources/People/marc-prensky.jpeg"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Marc
Prensky<br>
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src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-us.GIF"></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><a
href="http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/">http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/</a>
, On Digital Game-Based Learning: <a

href=“http://www.marcprensky.com/dgbl/default.asp”>http://www.marcprensky.com/dgbl/default.asp</a></font></p>

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Clark Quinn

			<td bgcolor="white"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Clark Quinn<br>
						<img border=0 width=50 height=26 id="_x0000_i1069"
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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Clark has been involved in the design, development, and/or evaluation of a wide variety of educational technology. Projects in which he has led design include educational games, mobile learning applications, performance support tools, online conferences, nation-wide educational web activities, effectiveness evaluation methodologies, and intelligent learning systems.   The projects have been recognized in a variety of ways, including being chosen for presentation and awards. He's the author of Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games. [<a href="http://www.quinnovation.com/index.html">http://www.quinnovation.com/index.html</a>]</font></td>

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Jay Rajnovich

			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>Jay Rajnovich</b><br>
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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">  Areas of Expertise Logic Programming and Tentative Reasoning with Partial Information Logic; Visualization and Simulation using Computer Graphics, Computer Game Technology and Artificial Intelligence.[ <a href="http://www.auc.ca/view.php?page=fs_facultyDetails&id=108">http://www.auc.ca/view.php?page=fs_facultyDetails&amp;id=108</a> ]</font></td>

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Mitch Resnick

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=resnick></a><a
href="http://www.media.mit.edu/people/bio_mres.html"><span style='font-family:
Verdana;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75
height=75 id="_x0000_i1070" src="../KB/Resources/People/mitchel-resnick.jpeg"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Mitch
Resnick<br>
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src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-us.GIF"></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Mitchel Resnick</font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Associate Professor of
Media Arts and Sciences; Lifelong Kindergarten Group </font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">LEGO Papert Professor of
Learning Research MIT: <a href="http://www.media.mit.edu/people/bio_mres.html">http://www.media.mit.edu/people/bio_mres.html</a></font></p>
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Lloyd P. Rieber

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=rieber></a><a
href="http://it.coe.uga.edu/%7elrieber/index.html"><span style='text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75 height=95 id="_x0000_i1072"
src="../KB/Resources/People/rieber.gif"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Lloyd
P. Rieber<br>
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src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-us.GIF"></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Professor, Instructional
Technology</font></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">I've done a lot of research
recently on people's learning within computer simulations, especially when
they are provided with little or no instructional support. I've also been
doing alot of work with children to support their ideas about how to design
educational computer games. Their creativity and energy continue to provide
me with a source of admiration and inspiration. I am also just starting to do
research specifically on gaming. I am convinced that games have been
undervalued and misrepresented. Again, this is based on my experiences,
though I'm only getting the nerve lately to actually do research in this
area! <a href="http://it.coe.uga.edu/%7elrieber/index.html">http://it.coe.uga.edu/~lrieber/index.html</a></font></p>
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Ben Sawyer

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=sawyer></a><a
href="http://www.dmill.com/digitalmill.html"><span style='text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75 height=75 id="_x0000_i1074"
src="../KB/Resources/People/ben_sawyer.gif"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Ben
Sawyer<br>
							<img border=0 width=50 height=26 id="_x0000_i1075"
src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-us.GIF"></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Serious Games Initiative</font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">The Serious Games Initiative is focused on
uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the
public sector. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links
between the electronic game industry and projects involving the use of games
in education, training, health, and public policy. [<a
href="http://www.seriousgames.org/">http://www.seriousgames.org/</a>]</font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Also: <a
href="http://www.dmill.com/digitalmill.html">Digitalmill Inc.</a></font></p>
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Mary Scott

			<td bgcolor="white" width=75><a name="maryscott"></a><a href="http://collections.ic.gc.ca/mercer/272.html"><img src="../KB/Resources/People/maryscott.jpeg" alt="" width="75" border="0"></a></td>
			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>Mary Scott</b><br>
					<img src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-cdn-2.jpeg" alt="" width="50" height="26" border="0"></font></td>
			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Scott, Mary Elizabeth. Well-known for her work as an artist, she has also played an important role as a teacher, administrator and gallery director. She is an instructor of painting and drawing at the Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary (1984-present). [ <a href="http://www.acad.ab.ca/faculty.html?page=42&action=details&p=1DFB27D2-802F-1011-785ED1590C73E863">http://www.acad.ab.ca/faculty.html?page=42&amp;action=details&amp;p=1DFB27D2-802F-1011-785ED1590C73E863</a> ][ <a href="http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0011501">http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&amp;Params=A1ARTA0011501</a> ]</font></td>

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Suzanne Seggerman

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					<a name="suzanne"></a><a href="http://www.gamesforchange.org/about2.html"><img src="../KB/Resources/People/suzanneseggerman-sm.jpg" alt="" width="75" border="0"></a></div>
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			<td bgcolor="white"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Suzanne Seggerman<br>
						<img border=0 width=50 height=26 id="_x0000_i1075"
src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-us.GIF"></font></b></td>
			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><a href="http://www.gamesforchange.org/about2.html">Suzanne Seggerman</a> is Co-founder and Co-director of Games for Change. She is also a Director at NYC-based think tank Web Lab, where she oversees a variety of cross-media projects. Her background in online media includes community-oriented interactive environments and the design of non-traditional games. Some of this work earned her awards from New Voices New Visions and Communications Arts. Before the internet, she worked as a documentary film producer for PBS, including on Ken Burns/Stephen Ives PBS series &quot;The West&quot; and as Co-producer of &quot;Race For Life,&quot; a humanitarian aid and documentary film about Eastern Europe.</font></td>

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Kurt Squire

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=squire></a><span
style='font-family:Verdana'><a
href="http://website.education.wisc.edu/kdsquire/"><span style='text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75 height=97 id="_x0000_i1076"
src="../KB/Resources/People/ksquire-2.jpg"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Kurt
Squire<br>
							<img border=0 width=50 height=26 id="_x0000_i1077"
src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-us.GIF"></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">University of Wisconsin-Madison;
Educational Communications and Technology division of Curriculum and
Instruction. Along with Jim Gee, I run the Room 130 research group examining
games, learning, and literacy. I'm also a visiting Research Fellow at MIT and
co-director of The Education Arcade, a research and service project
investigating the educational potential of digital gaming.<a
href="http://website.education.wisc.edu/kdsquire/">
http://website.education.wisc.edu/kdsquire/</a></font></p>
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Andrew Stapleton

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=stapleton></a><img
border=0 width=75 height=85 id="_x0000_i1078"
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Andrew
Stapleton<br>
							<img border=0 width=50 height=33 id="_x0000_i1079"
src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/australia.gif"></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><a href="http://andrewstapleton.com/"><img  border=0 width=100 height=26 src="../KB/Resources/Proprietary/stapleton.gif" align=left ></a>My primary interests focus on the nexus between  learning, design and computer and video games. In particular how games are designed to provide multifaceted experiences for players - learning experiences, thinking experiences, emotional experiences and maybe even spiritual experiences. I also have a keen interest in the design, production and media consumption of videogames, film, television, interactive television and special effects, plus issues related to cognition, psychology, physics and philosophy. [<a href="http://andrewstapleton.com/">http://andrewstapleton.com/</a>]</font></p>
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Benjamin Stokes

				<div align="center">
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			<td bgcolor="white"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Benjamin Stokes<br>
						<img border=0 width=50 height=26 id="_x0000_i1075"
src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-us.GIF"></font></b></td>
			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"> <a href="http://www.gamesforchange.org/about2.html">Benjamin Stokes</a> is Co-founder and Co-director of Games for Change. Previously, Benjamin was the E-Learning Architect at NetAid, where he trained high school students to reach 150,000 of their peers in the fight on global poverty. Benjamin has also managed the United Nations online volunteering service. Before NetAid, Benjamin produced research tools and virtual fieldtrips for the more than 43,000 high schools served by Bigchalk/ProQuest publishers. At the CREA House, Benjamin helped develop a living wage standard for the U.S.-Mexico border region. Benjamin has studied abroad in Senegal; at Haverford College he co-founded the anti-sweatshop student alliance.</font></td>

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Richard N. Van Eck

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			<td bgcolor="white"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Richard N. Van Eck<br>
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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Richard N. Van Eck is Associate Professor and Graduate Director of the Instructional Design &amp; Technology program at the University of North Dakota (UND). [<a href="http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/rvaneck/">http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/rvaneck/</a>]</font></td>

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Brian Winn

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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">I design, create, and research interactive media with a focus in game design, digital game-based learning and interactive health communication. [<a href="http://gel.msu.edu/winn/">http://gel.msu.edu/winn/</a>]</font></td>

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(also media studies with a focus on games)

Espen Aarseth

				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Espen Aarseth<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Aesthetics of Cybermedia and Ergodic Literature; Hypertext aesthetics; Multi-User Dungeons; Computer Culture Studies; History of media thechnology; Science Fiction / Cyberpunk Studies</font></p>
				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Computer Methods in the Humanities <a href="http://www.hf.uib.no/hi/espen/">http://www.hf.uib.no/hi/espen/</a></font></p>
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Ernest W. Adams

				<p align=center><a name=adams></a><a href="http://www.designersnotebook.com/index.htm"><img border=0 width=75 height=100 id="_x0000_i1124" src="../KB/Resources/People/ernest-adams.jpeg"></a></p>
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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Ernest W. Adams<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Author, Consultant, Games Designer <a href="http://www.designersnotebook.com/index.htm">[http://www.designersnotebook.com/index.htm]</a>, also: <a href="http://www.designersnotebook.com/Cover/cover.htm">http://www.designersnotebook.com/Cover/cover.htm</a></font></p>
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Chris Crawford

				<p><a name=crawford></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://www.erasmatazz.com/"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><img border=0 width=75 height=92 id="_x0000_i1039" src="../KB/Resources/Proprietary/crawfordsm.jpg"></span></a></span></b></p>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>Chris Crawford<br>
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						</b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana">Image copyright notice (&copy; <a href="http://www.kimstringfellow.com/portfolio.html">kimstringfellow</a> 1999)</span></font></p>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">One of the first people to speak and write about game design from an almost literary perspective, he has created his share of classic computer games, including some of the original Atari 800 titles from Atari (&quot;SCRAM,&quot; &quot;Energy Czar&quot;), Avalon Hill's &quot;Legionnaire,&quot; and the seminal 8-bit wargame, &quot;Eastern Front (1941).&quot; Later, he moved to the Macintosh, creating &quot;Balance of Power,&quot; &quot;Patton vs. Rommel,&quot; and &quot;Patton Strikes Back,&quot; among others. Chris is the founder of the Journal of Computer Game Design, the Computer Game Developers' Conference, and is the author of several books, including The Art of Computer Game Design. [<a href="http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/CRAWFORD.HTM">http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/CRAWFORD.HTM</a>] [<a href="http://www.erasmatazz.com/">http://www.erasmatazz.com/</a>]</font></p>
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Jesper Juul

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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Jesper Juul<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">I am an assistant professor in computer game theory and design at the Center for Computer Game Research Copenhagen (I also have a phd from the same institution.)<a href="http://www.jesperjuul.dk/"> http://www.jesperjuul.dk/</a></font></p>

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Jyrki Jouko Juhani Kasvi

				<p><a name=kasvi></a><a href="http://www.knowledge.hut.fi/people/jkasvi/"><img src="../KB/Resources/People/jjjmain1.jpg" alt="" width="75" border="0"></a></p>
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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Jyrki Jouko Juhani Kasvi<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">At the moment I am working as a research scientist in the Helsinki University of Technology Department of Industrial Engineering and Managment Laboratory of Work Psychology and Leadership. My research interests focus on
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						Mobile

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					 entertainment operative knowledge management on the shop floor. In practice this usually means electronic performance support systems or interactive task support systems as I prefer to call them. [ <a href="http://www.knowledge.hut.fi/people/jkasvi/">http://www.knowledge.hut.fi/people/jkasvi/</a> ] See also: Games, Gamers and Gaming Culture Thoughts and studies on the computer and video game phenomenon [<a href="http://www.knowledge.hut.fi/projects/games/gamelinks.html">http://www.knowledge.hut.fi/projects/games/gamelinks.html</a>]</font></p>
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Brenda Laurel

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				<p align=center style="text-align:center"><a name=laurel></a><span style="font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><img border=0 width=75 height=67 id="_x0000_i1060" src="../KB/Resources/People/BL_with_tatt.jpg"></span></a></span></p>
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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Brenda Laurel<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><a href="http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/">http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/</a> Her work focuses on interactive narrative, human-computer interaction, and cultural aspects of technology.</font></p>
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Frans Ilkka Mäyrä

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					<p style="text-align:center"><a name="mayra"></a><a href="http://www.unet.fi"><img width="75" border=0 src="../KB/Resources/People/frans_mayra.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1120"></a></p>
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				<p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Frans Ilkka M&auml;yr&auml;<br clear=all>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Frans Ilkka M&auml;yr&auml;,<br>

					Research Director, University of
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							Tampere

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					; <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;[<a href="http://www.uta.fi/%7efrans.mayra/">http://www.uta.fi/~frans.mayra/</a>]</span></font></p>
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Jane McGonigal

			<td bgcolor="white" width=75><a name="mcgonigal"></a><a href="http://www.avantgame.com/"><img src="../KB/Resources/People/jane-mcgonigal.jpg" alt="" width="75" border="0"></a></td>
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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Jane McGonigal<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">I'm a Ph.D. candidate in  Performance Studies with a designated emphasis in New Media Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.  I'm also a member of UC Berkeley's Alpha Lab in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and a resident game designer for the Berkeley Institute of Design. [<a href="http://www.avantgame.com/">http://www.avantgame.com/</a>]</font></p>
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Mark Mine

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				<p align=center style="text-align:center"><a name=mine></a><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/%7emine/index.html"><span style="text-decoration:  none;text-underline:none"><img border=0 width=76 height=100 id="_x0000_i1100" src="../KB/Resources/People/mine.jpg"></span></a></p>
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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Mark Mine<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Walt Disney Internet Group [co-developer of ToonTown] [<a href"http://www.cs.unc.edu/%7emine/index.html">http://www.cs.unc.edu/~mine/index.html</a>] [<a href="http://www.toontown.com">http://www.toontown.com</a>]</font></p>
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Peter Molyneux

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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Peter Molyneux ODE<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Lionhead Studios; designer of Black &amp; White, Fable, The Movies [<a href="http://www.lionhead.com/">http://www.lionhead.com/</a>] First Games Developer to be Knighted</font></p>
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Janet Murray

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				<p align=center style="text-align:center"><a name="murray"></a><a href="http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/%7emurray/"><img border=0 width=75 src="../KB/Resources/People/janet-murray.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1119"></a></p>
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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Janet Murray<br clear=all>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Professor Janet H. Murray is an internationally recognized interactive designer, the director of Georgia Tech's Masters Degree Program in <a href="http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/idt/">Information Design and Technology</a> and <a href="http://www.idt.gatech.edu/phd/">Ph.D. in Digital Media</a>, and a member of Georgia Tech's interdisciplinary <a href="http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/">GVU</a>
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					. &nbsp;She is the author of <a href="http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/%7emurray/hoh/hoh.html">Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace</a> (Free Press, 1997; MIT Press 1998), which has been translated into 5 languages, and &nbsp;is widely used as a roadmap to the coming broadband art, information, and entertainment environments. She is currently working on a textbook for MIT Press, <i>Inventing the Medium: A Principled Approach to Interactive Design</i> and on a digital edition of the Warner Brothers classic,
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								<i>Casablanca</i>

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						<i>, </i>&nbsp;funded by NEH and in collaboration with the American Film Institute. In addition, she directs an <a href="http://www.etv.gatech.edu/">eTV Prototyping Group</a>, which has worked on interactive television applications for PBS, ABC, and other networks. She is also a member Georgia Tech's <a href="http://egl.gatech.edu">Experimental Game Lab</a>. [<a href="http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/%7emurray/">http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~murray/</a>]</font></p>
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Ken Perlin

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				<p align=center style="text-align:center"><a name=perlin></a><a href="http://mrl.nyu.edu/%7eperlin"><span style="font-family:Verdana;  text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><img border=0 width=75 height=105 id="_x0000_i1104" src="../KB/Resources/People/mk3.jpg"></span></a></p>
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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Ken Perlin<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Graphics; Games;
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								New York
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						University <a href="http://mrl.nyu.edu/%7eperlin/">http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/</a> Consultant on <a href="http://www.spore.com/">SPORE</a></font></p>
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Miguel Sicart

			<td bgcolor="white" width=75><a name="sicart"></a><a href="http://game.itu.dk/itu_people.html"><img src="../KB/Resources/People/Sicart.jpg" alt="" width="75" border="0"></a></td>
			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>Miguel Sicart</b></font><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><br>
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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Ph.D. Candidate at the IT University. MA in Literary Theory: University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.<br>
					Areas of competence: Game ethics, game design, game experience.<br>
					Current Research Interests: Ethics, philosophy of games.<br>
					Other: Working on Ph.D. thesis: Game, Player, Ethics (work in progress). [ <a href="http://game.itu.dk/itu_people.html">http://game.itu.dk/itu_people.html </a>]</font></td>

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Bart Simon

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				<p align=center style="text-align:center"><a name="bartsimon"></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/socanth/cv_simon.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><img border=0 width=75 src="../KB/Resources/People/bart-simon.jpg"></span></a></span></b></p>
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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Bart Simon<br clear=all>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">My interest in information and communication technologies focuses on an exploration of the forms of sociality mediated by these technologies in terms of the relationship between virtuality on the one hand (virtual worlds, online interaction) and materiality on the other (computing cultures and practices, interfaces, and cyborgs). I am especially interested in the forms of sociality produced through online digital gaming (video and computer games) and I am currently directing SSHRC and FQRSC funded projects to study collective fantasy, social imagination and socio-material relations in online computer games. I am also the director of the Montreal GameCODE project (<a href="http://www.gamecode.ca">http://www.gamecode.ca</a>), an academic forum for digital games research involving students, faculty, artists and game developers in the
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					 area. [<a href="http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/socanth/cv_simon.html">http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/socanth/cv_simon.html</a>]</font></p>
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Bill Slease

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				<p align=center style="text-align:center"><a name=slease></a><a href="http://www.gigagiggles.com/"><span style="text-decoration:none;  text-underline:none"><img border=0 width=75 height=77 id="_x0000_i1108" src="../KB/Resources/People/slease-bill.jpeg"></span></a></p>
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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Bill Slease<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Bill Slease is a video game developer at <a href="http://www.cyanworlds.com/">Cyan Worlds</a> in eastern
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							Washington

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					. He's been working in the game industry since 1999. Before that, Bill wrote experiment control software for
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							Carnegie Mellon
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						University

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					, ministered to college students at Shadyside Presbyterian Church in
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							Pittsburgh

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					, and served as an officer in the US Navy. [<a href"http://www.gigagiggles.com/">http://www.gigagiggles.com/</a>]</font></p>
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Jonas Heide Smith

			<td bgcolor="white" width=75><a name="smith"></a><a href="http://game.itu.dk/itu_people.html"><img src="../KB/Resources/People/jonasheide.jpg" alt="" width="75" border="0"></a></td>
			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>Jonas Heide Smith</b></font><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><br>
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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"> Ph.D. candidate, MA in Media Studies<br>
					Areas of competence: Social issues in gaming, communication and cooperation in multiplayer games, social game theory, virtual worlds.<br>
					Current Research Interests: Applying social game theory to the study of computer games, cooperation and conflict in massively multiplayer games, applying game design techniques to work-related multi-user systems (and vice versa). [ <a href="http://game.itu.dk/itu_people.html">http://game.itu.dk/itu_people.html</a> ]</font></td>

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T.LTaylor

			<td bgcolor="white"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">T.L.Taylor<br>
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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">T.L.Taylor Areas of competence: Virtual worlds, massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), software &amp; values, gender and gaming, online research, computer-mediated communication, digital embodiment, sociology of technology and cultural studies.<br>
				</font><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Current Research Interests: MMOGs, architecture/engines/production and the construction of culture &amp; values in games, professional gamers.  [<a href="http://www.itu.dk/%7etltaylor/">http://www.itu.dk/%7Etltaylor/</a>]</font></td>

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Will Wright

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				<p align=center style="text-align:center"><a name=wright></a><a href="http://thesims.ea.com/"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:  none"><img border=0 width=75 height=56 id="_x0000_i1114" src="../KB/Resources/People/w_wright.jpeg"></span></a></p>
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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Will Wright<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Creator of The Sims [<a href="http://thesims.ea.com/">http://thesims.ea.com/</a>] AND&nbsp;Spore [ <a href="http://www.spore.com/">http://www.spore.com/</a> ]</font></p>
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Eric Zimmerman

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				<p align=center style="text-align:center"><a name=zimmerman></a><a href="http://www.ericzimmerman.com/"><span style="text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none"><img border=0 width=75 height=92 id="_x0000_i1080" src="../KB/Resources/People/zimmerman-2.jpeg"></span></a></p>
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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Eric Zimmerman<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">GameLab : Author, Consultant, Games Designer [<a href="http://www.ericzimmerman.com/">http://www.ericzimmerman.com/</a>]</font></p>
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Alfred Bork

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=bork></a><a
href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7ebork/"><span style='text-decoration:none;
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Alfred Bork<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Alfred Bork is Professor Emeritus of
Information and Computer Science and Physics, at the
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for research and development of technology-based learning material. He is
Vice President of A Bork Endeavors. [<a href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7ebork/">http://www.ics.uci.edu/~bork/</a>]</font></p>
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Bonnie Bracey-Sutton

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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Bonnie Bracey<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Bonnie Bracey is a Teacher
- Agent of Change, working on technology integration projects with classroom
teachers and national organizations. She also works internationally with
Global Information Infrastructure initiatives as a consultant. If you just
read through her titles and accomplishments, you will be overwhelmed. It
seems that she has been everywhere, done everything and has every possible
title a teacher could ever be awarded.[written by Michelle Mock] </font></p>
<p><a
href="http://www.imagiverse.org/friends/bonnie_bracey.htm"><span

><font size=“-1” face=“Verdana,Helvetica,Arial”>http://www.imagiverse.org/friends/bonnie_bracey.htm</font></a>

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<p><a
href="http://miyagawa.ubiquitous-media.com/MediaDEPO/biography/Bonnie_Bracey.htm"><span

><font size=“-1” face=“Verdana,Helvetica,Arial”>http://miyagawa.ubiquitous-media.com/MediaDEPO/biography/Bonnie_Bracey.htm</font></a>

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John Seely Brown

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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">John Seely Brown<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">In my past life as the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). I was deeply involved in the management of radical innovation and in the formation of corporate strategy and strategic positioning of Xerox as The Document Company. Today, I'm Chief of Confusion, helping people ask the right questions, trying to make a difference through my work- speaking, writing, teaching. [<a href="http://www.johnseelybrown.com/">http://www.johnseelybrown.com/</a>]</font></p>
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Andrea DiSessa

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=disessa></a><a
href="http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/gsefaculty.dg.html#disessa"><span
style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75
height=86 id="_x0000_i1088" src="../KB/Resources/People/disessa.gif"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Andrea diSessa<br>
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src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-us.GIF"></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Chancellor's Professor of Education His
research centers around conceptual and experiential knowledge in physics, and
principles for designing flexible and comprehensible computer systems. He is
the director of the Boxer Computer Environment Project, an integrated system
that allows non-experts to perform a broad range of tasks, including
programming. His current work focuses on the development of the concept of
force and component architectures in educational software. [<a
href="http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/gsefaculty.dg.html#disessa">http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/gsefaculty.dg.html#disessa</a>]</font></p>
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Merlin Donald

			<td bgcolor="white" width=75><a name="donald"></a><a href="http://psyc.queensu.ca/faculty/donald/donald.html"><img src="../KB/Resources/People/donald_office.jpg" alt="" width="75" border="0"></a></td>
			<td bgcolor="white"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Merlin Donald<br>
						<img src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-cdn-2.jpeg" alt="" width="50" height="26" border="0"></font></b></td>
			<td bgcolor="white"> <font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Merlin Donald is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. A cognitive neuroscientist with a background in philosophy, he is the author of many scientific papers, and two influential books: Origins of the Modern Mind: Three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition (Harvard, 1991), and A Mind So Rare: The evolution of human consciousness (Norton, 2001). [ <a href="http://psyc.queensu.ca/faculty/donald/donald.html">http://psyc.queensu.ca/faculty/donald/donald.html</a> ]</font></td>

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Henry Giroux

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=giroux
id=giroux></a><b><span style='font-family:Verdana'><a

href=“http://www.education.miami.edu/ep/contemporaryed/Henry_Giroux/henry_giroux.html”><span

style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75
height=97 id="_x0000_i1090" src="../KB/Resources/People/giroux_sml.jpg"></a></b></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Henry Giroux<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Director of the Waterbury
Forum in Education and Cultural Studies at Penn State University <a

href=“http://128.118.221.230/education/facultystaffpublicpage.asp?which=114”>http://128.118.221.230/education/facultystaffpublicpage.asp?which=114</a></font></p>

<p><a

href=“http://www.education.miami.edu/ep/contemporaryed/Henry_Giroux/henry_giroux.html”><span ><font size=“-1” face=“Verdana,Helvetica,Arial”>http://www.education.miami.edu/ep/contemporaryed/</font></a>

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<p><a

href=“http://www.education.miami.edu/ep/contemporaryed/Henry_Giroux/henry_giroux.html”><span ><font size=“-1” face=“Verdana,Helvetica,Arial”>Henry_Giroux/henry_giroux.html</font></a> </p>

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Mark Guzdial

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=guzdial></a><a  href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html"><span  style='font-family:Verdana;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img  border=0 width=75 height=102   src="../KB/Resources/People/Guzdial.JPEG"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Mark Guzdial<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Multimedia; CSEd; Georgia Tech: <a  href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html">http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html</a></font></p>
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Doug Lowenstein

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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Doug Lowenstein<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">President, Entertainment Software
Association [<a href="http://www.theesa.com/">http://www.theesa.com/</a>]</font></p>
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Thomas MacCalla

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=maccalla></a><span  style='font-family:Verdana'><img border=0 width=75 height=111  id="_x0000_i1096" src="../KB/Resources/People/img_maccalla.jpg"></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Thomas MacCalla<br>
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src="../KB/Resources/DoDads/Flags/flag-us.GIF"></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">(not sure yet how he's connected, but I  feel he is) Executive Director, National University Institute, CA [<a  href="http://www.nu.edu">http://www.nu.edu/]</a></font></p>
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Thomas W. Malone

			<td bgcolor="white" width=75><a name="malone"></a><a href="http://ccs.mit.edu/malone/"><img src="../KB/Resources/People/malone.jpeg" alt="" width="75" border="0"></a></td>
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				<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Thomas W. Malone<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also the founder and director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and was one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on &quot;Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century&quot;. Professor Malone teaches classes on leadership and information technology, and his research focuses on how new organizations can be designed to take advantage of the possibilities provided by information technology. [<a href="http://ccs.mit.edu/malone/">http://ccs.mit.edu/malone/</a>]</font></p>
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Donald A. Norman

<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=norman></a><a  href="http://www.jnd.org/index.html"><span style='text-decoration:none;  text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75 height=115 id="_x0000_i1102" src="../KB/Resources/People/norman_headshot_143x167.jpg"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Donald A. Norman<br>
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<p><font size=“-1” face=“Verdana,Helvetica,Arial”>In the field of psychophysics, that branch of experimental psychology that studies sensation and perception, a jnd is the amount that something must be changed for the difference to be noticeable, defined to mean that the change is detectable half the time. My goal is to make a noticeable difference – many jnds worth – in human-centered technology.</font></p> <p><font size=“-1” face=“Verdana,Helvetica,Arial”>I started my career as an experimental/mathematical psychologist in psychophysics, and my love of the exquisite sensitivity and dynamic range of hearing and seeing, as well as the power of human perception has stayed with me. [ <a href=“http://www.jnd.org/index.html”>http://www.jnd.org/index.html</a>]</font></p>

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Roger Schank

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=schank></a><a  href="http://www.engines4ed.org/hyperbook/misc/rcs.html"><span  style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75  height=64 id="_x0000_i1106" src="../KB/Resources/People/rogerschank.jpg"></a></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Roger Schank<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Experiential Learning [<a  href="http://www.engines4ed.org/hyperbook/misc/rcs.html">http://www.engines4ed.org/hyperbook/misc/rcs.html</a>]</font></p>
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Brian Sutton-Smith

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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>Brian Sutton-Smith<br>
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				<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Professor of Education, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania. Sutton-Smith is a child-development expert and directed a child culture group during his tenure at Penn. His research interests include play history and the cross-cultural study of play, as well as psychology, education and folklore. Author of &quot;<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SUTAMB.html">The Ambiguity of Play</a>&quot; </font></p>
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Michael Tomasello

			<td bgcolor="white" width=75><a name="tomasello"></a><a href="http://www.iis.uva.nl/i2o/object.cfm/objectID=A18193F7-4B74-4E62-84D07D52F2C9AE19"><img src="../KB/Resources/People/tomasello.jpg" alt="" width="75" border="0"></a></td>
			<td bgcolor="white"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Michael Tomasello<br>
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			<td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"> Major research interests in processes of social cognition, social learning, and communication from developmental, comparative, and cultural perspectives - especially aspects related to language and its acquisition. Current theoretical focus on processes of shared intentionality. Empirical research mainly with human children from 1 to 4 years of age and great apes. [ <a href="http://email.eva.mpg.de/%7etomas/">http://email.eva.mpg.de/~tomas/</a> ]</font></td>

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Lev Vygotsky

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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=vygotsky></a><b><span  style='font-family:Verdana'><a  href="http://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/vygotsky/index.htm"><span  style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=75  height=102 id="_x0000_i1110" src="../KB/Resources/People/vygotsky.gif"></a></b></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Lev Semenovich Vygotsky  (1896 - 1934)<br>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Vygotsky, who was a contemporary of  Piaget's, has had a major influence on developmental psychology. Of  importance is his emphasis on the sociocultural nature of learning with a key  element being Vygotsky's notion of a zone of proximal development. [ <a  href="http://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/vygotsky/index.htm">http://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/vygotsky/index.htm</a> ] [ <a  href="http://carbon.cudenver.edu/%7emryder/itc_data/cogsci.html#vygotsky">http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/cogsci.html#vygotsky

</a>]</font></p>

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