My 11yo gamer son plays a text adventure for the first time... and asks for another one before bedtime. We stayed up until almost midnight, and I posted these screencasts the next day.

We started with Adam Cadre's "9:05", and continued with the Crowther and Woods classic "Colossal Cave Adventure".

My school, Seton Hill University, recently won a multimillion dollar instruction technology grant, part of which includes funding for a new technology specialist (which will become a permanent job when the grant ends). 

In helping to write the job notice, I drafted the "you-attitude" paragraphs, with the references to Bioshock and lolcats.

Computers and Composition Online will publish a special issue on the intersections between composition, literacy, and computer/video gaming as a companion to the Fall 2008 special print issue of Computers and Composition, "Reading Games: Composition, Literacy, and Video Gaming." These issues will explore the social, historical, cultural, and pedagogical implications of computer/video games on literacies and the writing classroom.