{"id":3859,"date":"2014-05-03T18:40:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T00:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:57:07","slug":"where-ive-been-online-may-3-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/05\/03\/where-ive-been-online-may-3-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I&#8217;ve Been Online (May 3, 2013)"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roboticstrends.com\/consumer_education\/article\/4_robots_that_engage_students_in_stem\">Consumer and Education: 4 Robots That Engage Students in STEM | Robotics Trends<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;Robots can capture a child\u2019s imagination like no other tool by creating a fun, physical learning process. With robots, kids learn programming via interactive play by moving a robot in various sequences and using intuitive, visual programming on a computer screen.<\/p>\n<p>The children also learn STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) by watching and interacting with robots that demonstrate the practical results of the day\u2019s lesson. \u201cKids recognize when they are learning something themselves\u2014robots give them that,\u201d says Larry Johnson, CEO of the New Media Consortium, a research organization that specializes in educational technology. Robots are proving to be valuable educational tools from the lower grades all the way up to graduate school. \u201cBuilding and programming these devices is part of becoming a creative science and engineering kind of person,\u201d he adds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/robots\">robots<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/stem\">stem<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/games\">games<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/frictionalgames.blogspot.se\/2014\/04\/4-layers-narrative-design-approach.html\">In The Games Of Madness: 4-Layers, A Narrative Design Approach<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;This blog post will be about a new way to approach narrative design in games &#8211; the 4 Layers Approach. It is based on a GDC talk I gave in March this year. The approach is primarily meant to suggest a workflow that focuses on the story and makes sure the narrative and gameplay are connected. The end goal is to create games that provide a better interactive narrative.<br \/>\n&#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/games\">games<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/narrative\">narrative<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/design\">design<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lizengland.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/the-door-problem\/\">\u201cThe Door Problem\u201d | Liz England<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8221;<br \/>\nTheory &amp; Practice April 21, 2014 68 Comments<br \/>\n\u201cThe Door Problem\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what does a game designer do? Are you an artist? Do you design characters and write the story? Or no, wait, you\u2019re a programmer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Game design is one of those nebulous terms to people outside the game industry that\u2019s about as clear as the \u201castrophysicist\u201d job title is to me. It\u2019s also my job, so I find myself explaining what game design means to a lot of people from different backgrounds, some of whom don\u2019t know anything about games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/games\">games<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-3859'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3859);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3859);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(3859);\">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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Consumer and Education: 4 Robots That Engage Students in STEM | Robotics Trends &#8220;Robots can capture a child\u2019s imagination like no other tool by creating a fun, physical learning process. With robots, kids learn programming via interactive play by moving &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/05\/03\/where-ive-been-online-may-3-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"Where I've Been Online (May 3, 2013) http:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-10f","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":[353,9,12,14,81,24],"tags":[41,127,342,198,308],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-2","category-educational-technology","category-games","category-general","category-information-technology","category-teaching-learning","tag-education","tag-game-design","tag-games-gaming","tag-narrative","tag-robots"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-10f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3618,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/07\/08\/games-the-key-to-girls-stem-education-news-northeastern\/","url_meta":{"origin":3859,"position":0},"title":"Games the key to girls\u2019 STEM education | news @ Northeastern","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Games the key to girls\u2019 STEM education | news @ Northeastern. 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