The 2012 Olympics start in 32 days, and recent TV programming was lousy with Olympic trials. (Including this amazing tie for third place in the women’s 100 meters.) And while the athletes (and advertisers) are preparing, teachers are also preparing to use the Olympics to engage students. Project Britain has developed some teaching resources — … Read more Olympic Teaching
Play a game, get a job. Knack, a start-up, has released Happy Hour, a game designed to test the cognitive skills employers might want, including emotional intelligence, comfort with risk, and flexibility. Playing the short game can give employers as much info about you as extensive interviewing. (Just try convincing the HR people, though.) Turns … Read more Happy Hour as the Path to a New Job
The Institute for the Future is running a 2-day game starting April 3 to “cultivate back-of-the-envelope ideas for new technologies, social enterprises, skillsets, educational approaches, and other strategies or methods to help and empower poor and vulnerable populations around the globe.” Anyone can play. Interesting example of a “serious game.” Serious games are a expected … Read more Gaming to End Poverty
This is a cool little game — the Kerning Game. Anyone interested in typography or printing knows about kerning — the variable space between letters that makes a font look coherent and readable. (And anyone old enough to remember keylining, really knows about kerning.) But what I really like about the game is that it … Read more Actually Kerning