{"id":4704,"date":"2015-03-18T09:05:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2015-04-03T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T19:28:02","slug":"book-teasers-magic-bullet-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/03\/18\/book-teasers-magic-bullet-games\/","title":{"rendered":"book-teasers [Magic Bullet Games]"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Progress on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/education+%26+language\/learning+%26+instruction\/book\/978-3-319-12222-9\" target=\"_blank\">my book<\/a> is proceeding, albeit slowly. The first few chapters are the hardest for me, as they involve a whole lot of background research to make sure the information is up to date. Interestingly, it is actually more work than my original literature review for my PhD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have begun to post a few sneak previews. Check them out:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/MagicBullet\/doku.php?id=book-teasers\">book-teasers [Magic Bullet Games]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/MagicBullet\/doku.php?id=book-teasers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w300tokd8a1afmediaclassification_of_learning_principles_5.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Stay tuned for more as it develops. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4704'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4704);\" title='Like' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>1 person likes this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4704);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4704);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Progress on my book is proceeding, albeit slowly. The first few chapters are the hardest for me, as they involve a whole lot of background research to make sure the information is up to date. Interestingly, it is actually more &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/03\/18\/book-teasers-magic-bullet-games\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,360,9,12,81,24],"tags":[316,41,225,342,15,393],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia","category-book","category-educational-technology","category-games","category-information-technology","category-teaching-learning","tag-book","tag-education","tag-game-based-learning","tag-games-gaming","tag-higher-education","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w300tokd8a1afmediaclassification_of_learning_principles_5.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1dS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4713,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/04\/05\/instructional-theories-for-dgbl\/","url_meta":{"origin":4704,"position":0},"title":"Instructional Theories for DGBL","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"April 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Another sneak peek to my book. 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