Welcome to PLAYHOUSE

Playhouse is not really a blog, it’s a place for Diane Carr (me) to park stuff. I’m based at the Institute of Education, University of London.  See under ‘who and what is playhouse?’ for more details. Follow entries (over there, on your right) to more information on various events, previous publications and these projects:

Projects

Chair of the  Higher Education Academy funded ‘Games, Virtual Worlds and Higher Education SIG’ 2010 – 2011.  For more information see posts under this category.

Methodoludica: Virtual Worlds/Methodology (2009-10) a short research project directed by Diane Carr at the Institute of Education, University of London.  The project is part of “MediaEvo – A trans-media environment for education”, led by Franca Pinto Minerva and Pierpaolo Limone, University of Foggia, in association with Giovanni Aloisio, University of Salento (MediaEvo – Sviluppo di una piattaforma Multicanale e Multisensoriale per l’Edutainment nei Beni Culturali).  Project dates: November 2009 – April 2010

Learning from Online Worlds; Teaching in Second Life (2007-2008)  Funded by the Eduserv Foundation. Please follow the link to the project blog for (much) more information. 12 months, part time.

Digital Technology, Learning and Game Formats: Computer games, motivation and gender (2004-2007) funded by the Eduserv Foundation

The AHRB funded Textuality and Videogames: Interactivity, Narrative Space and Role Play (2001-2003)

Some 2010 events

Invited speaker, Literacies in Online Games at Lancaster University 10th March

Keynote, Finnish Annual Congress of Educational Research, University of Lapland, November 2010. PDF of the presentation is here.

Convenor: Methodoludica workshop, June 2010

What’s digital game studies? For more information about research into digital games, online worlds or computer games, try the journal Game Studies, or visit the digital library at the Digital Games Research Association, particularly the papers from the DiGRA international conferences. There is a also a sample issue of the journal Games and Culture online here, plus there are short biographies of some games theorists (mostly UK-based ones) on the various event programmes listed here under ‘Pages’.

Also – follow the blogroll for links to a Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) Special Interest Group on Games and Film.

See the page of information and a list of abstracts from meetings of the London Game Research Group.

Accessibility – If you have trouble accessing the information on this blog, and you would prefer the material in another format please contact me d.carr[at]ioe.ac.uk.

The cover star is Ms Vella, a Second Life avatar.