Euan’s Blog

Having spent a very enjoyable week delivering a fairly generic talk about games in learning and assessment to FE college lecturers last week at the SFEU I was delighted to have been the focus of my first letter of complaint (as far as I am aware) to the organisers  from one of the more vocal members of one […]

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I was asked by the Scottish Further Education Unit to write an article for their magazine Broadcast about games and assessment in colleges.  Unfortunately as I wrote,  it turned into an article about what the education establishment could do to get good educational games…..
You can download the article here
 or read it here (without the cool images)
I am never quite sure how much of […]

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Its been a few months but we’ve got round to releasing lots of new products and software including InQuzitor for kids to use at home.   What I find tough to work out is how do I get the message out there that some of the best games designers in the world (part of the original Grand […]

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Last week I attended the Handheld Learning Conference in London.   I attended a pre-conference seminar which turned out to be the most animated and interesting session.
Marc Prensky was presiding and he started by talking about how when trying to sell learning games ‘in the early days’  people argued that learning games were too trivial.    Prensky now agrees with these doubters ‘ […]

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 a fascinating perspective is always on offer from Margaret Robertson at http://www.lookspring.co.uk/. 
 I first heard her speak last year when she was still editor at the Edge, talking about ‘games that make you cry’.   Thoughtful, moving, fantastic stuff, and made me reassess my own emotional investment and return in games and online communities.   She’s an insightful writer, informative, seems to […]

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