Submrge - Ideas for Teaching With Games

Submrge is a new site created for the purpose of promoting the use of games in education. On Submrge you will find short reviews of a wide ...

Video Games and Language Learning

When I was a child, most video games were in English, which was a foreign language for me, growing up in Germany. I remember one game in par...

Video Games and Essays

Earlier this week Kevin Hodgson wrote a short blog post about a project that he is doing with his sixth grade students. In the project the ...

CSI Web Adventures for Students

Rice University has partnered with CBS, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History to produ...

Build Your Own Video Games on Sploder

Sploder is a website that offers free tools for creating your own video games. There are four basic game templates that you can modify to y...

Video Games in Teaching - Lessons Learned

Over the years, I’ve worked with a lot of teachers who have expressed interest in using video games in their teaching, but they are not su...

Video Game Design and Stop Motion Movies

Image credit: bochalla Kevin Hodgson , whose website about student stop-motion movie projects I have featured in the past, has launched a n...

Video Game Dealers - Be Careful With In-app Purchases

Here's a clip from last Thursday's Daily Show about games that offer in-app or in-game purchases through iTunes or other online mar...