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Clubs and Organizations at Penn State

Other University Gaming Resources

• MIT's Education Arcade
• UMW's Games + Learning + Society Group
• CMU's Education Technology Center
• Georgia Tech's Experimental Game Lab
• University of Washington’s HIT Lab
• Syracuse Library Game Lab
• Ball State Extreme Gaming Lab
• Georgia University Gaming Lab - Info
• University of California’s Game, Culture, and Technology Lab
• New Mexico State University Learning Games Lab
• Utah State University Interdisciplinary Media Research Consortium

Organizations Investigating Educational Gaming

• NMC's Educational Gaming Initiative
• The Serious Games Community
• International Games Developers Association
  
• North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA)

Academic Resources

Dying to Learn: Instructional design and MMORPGs

Presentation at the 2005 Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
Rod Riegle, Professor, Illinois State University and Wes Matejka, Director of Technology Services, Illinois State University
Paper and Presentation available in PDF format.

The ABC's of online RPC's (role-playing courses)

Presentation at the 2003 Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning

MMORPG University

A series of papers on this subject by Dr. Rod Riegle, Illinois State University.

Podcasts, Vodcasts, and Other Online Video Content (May Contain Mature Content)

• Play:Digital - http://www.playdigital.tv/
• Totally Rad Show (covers all aspects of pop culture, including games) - http://www.totallyradshow.com/
• 1Up Yours - http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3149993
• The Guild Vodcast (spoof of popular MMORPG) - http://www.watchtheguild.com/
• The Spoony Experiment (hilarious take on bad games) - http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/games/
• Zero Punctuation (another interesting take on games) - http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation...
• Gaming FM (streaming gaming music) - http://www.gamingfm.com/
• Speed Demos Archive (your favorite games finished in record time) - http://speeddemosarchive.com/

Gaming sites

• Sirlin.net (a site about gaming theory from Capcom employee David Sirlin) - http://www.sirlin.net/
• Gamestats.com (comprehensive aggregator of gaming information) - http://www.gamestats.com/
• GameFAQS (user generated tips and tricks for games) - http://www.gamefaqs.com/
• Kotaku (news and reviews) - http://kotaku.com/
• TNL (very good message board for veteran and new gamers) - http://www.the-nextlevel.com/
• GotNext (general news and reviews) - http://www.got-next.com/
• VG Chartz (data about sales, etc. for gaming) - http://www.vgchartz.com/

Free Online Games

• http://www.battlefield-heroes.com/
• http://pmog.com/

Educational Gaming Sites/Blogs

• Convergence of the Real and the Virtual Wiki - A WoW Conference 

• Library game project at the University of
  Calgary: http://wcm2.ucalgary.ca/hardplay/

• DoomEd is a single-player first person shooter learning game that
  combines science and history with FPS action, taking players through
  the horror of bio-terrorism and WWII chemical experimentation gone
  wrong - http://www.desq.co.uk/doomed/index.aspx

• Altered Learning provides
  effective alternative learning and teaching tools with the
  characteristics of a game, yet with the content of the traditional
  curriculum - http://www.alteredlearning.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

• Xbox 360 Creators Club: http://creators.xna.com/

• http://www.personal.psu.edu/jar48/blogs/g/

Contributors: Andrew Calvin, Nikki Massaro Kauffman, David Nicastro, John Meier, Jason Reuscher, Brett Bixler