You Play World of Warcraft? You're Hired!: Why multiplayer games may be the best kind of job training.

Gaming tends to be regarded as a harmless diversion at best, a vile corruptor of youth at worst. But the usual critiques fail to recognize its potential for experiential learning. Unlike education acquired through textbooks, lectures, and classroom instruction, what takes place in massively multiplayer online games is what we call accidental learning. It’s learning…

Why Plagiarism Makes Sense in the Digital Age: Copying, Remixing, and Composing

Why Plagiarism Makes Sense in the Digital Age: Copying, Remixing, and Composing (CCCC 2006 Chicago — Day 2) This was a jam-packed, no-downtime, hardly-time-to-breathe presentation. I’m posting the notes that I took while the presenters were speaking, very lightedly edited afterwards in my hotel room. I hope whatever inadvertent remixing I did while taking these notes…

Technology, Play and Pedagogy: Video Gaming and New Literacies

Technology, Play and Pedagogy: Video Gaming and New Literacies (CCCC 2006 Chicago — Day 2) As is always the case with a conference blogging exercise, these are my rough notes, typed as the speakers were talking, and lightly edited in my hotel room at the end of the day. Matthew S. S. Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington:…

Using Genre to Help Students Envision Themselves as Writers

Using Genre to Help Students Envision Themselves as Writers (CCCC 2006 Chicago — Day 2) I volunteered to chair this session, so I wasn’t taking copious notes, just jotting down possible discussion prompts. Scott Whiddon, Louisiana State University, “From Cellblock to Center: Literacy, Identity and the Angolite.” The Angolite is an award-winning news magazine produced by…

Jay Wootten's CCCC 2006 Address: ''Riding a One-Eyed House''

Jay Wootten’s CCCC 2006 Address: ”Riding a One-Eyed House” (CCCC 2006 Chicago — Day 2) I won’t try to blog this in detail, since this talk will eventually be published by the CCCCs. A moment of comedy occurred when the other presenters on the dais started slipping out so they could see the screen, and Wootten…

Opening General Session

Opening General Session (CCCC 2006 Chicago — Day 2) Two huge projection screens flank the dais here in the grand ballroom. One screen shows a video close-up of the program chair, Akua Duku Anoyke. The other screen shows a textual transcript of her words. There is a soft chuckle in the room when she mentions a…