Awesome Resource Alert!!: 'Playtimes: A Century of Children's Game and Rhymes' Website Launches

©2011 The British Library Board
Two of my favourite UK children's scholars, Jackie Marsh and Rebekah Willett, have been collaborating (along with a number of other scholars) on an amazing project for the past couple of years now, examining "Children’s Playground Games and Songs in the New Media Age." Out of this project, Marsh, Willett and their expanding team of researchers, assistants,

PAX-East 2011!!!

Over the next couple of days, I'll be checking out new tech, new ideas and generally enjoying massive doses of gamer-y goodness down at PAX-East in Boston. After trying (and failing) to attend one of these  PAX festivals for several years now, I'm beyond excited. Though hoping to catch the keynote by I LOVE BEES/Reality is Broken author Jane McGonigal, I'm going to be dedicating most of my

LBP2: Hansel & Gretelbot Project

©2011 Wexfordian, Comphermc, Morgana25, rtm223, Hilightnotes, xkappax, Catiers, GruntosUK,CENTURION24, Jaeyden, Cuzfeeshe and steve_big_guns? or is it ©2011 SOE/PlayStation???
As part of my ongoing study of LittleBigPlanet (1 & 2), I've been watching a very cool, player-made (Media Molecule driven) initiative unfold over the past few weeks, entitled The Hansel & Gretelbot Project. As described on