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  1. Hiring iPhone game deveper (programmer), audio designer & visual designer for a research project at Columbia Uni. http://tinyurl.com/ykvedru
  2. Please take this short survey on games and relaxation to help us for our research. Thank you! Columbia Uni doc students http://bit.ly/394RdO
  3. On the other hand, not sold on the built-in quizzes .... #GES
  4. Cents City tempts players to spend/save in-game currency, not telling them didactically how to behave. Nice! #GES
  5. #glses Educator Symposium: Erica Halverson: The biggest shift is the new meaning of literacy- a productive act rather than consumptive.
  6. GLS is coming to an end and we learned a lot and had fun. Follow our Advance!, LIT and Women in Games curriculum dev' projects on our blog.
  7. @mkfrie you should have stayed here as I... Azi wants to join me in writing a chapter for RTR book about our gls twitter research. thoughts?
  8. Advance helps players correctly attribute systemic bias to emergent properties rather than direct causes within an organization #gls #gls09
  9. We are developing a web-based casual game called Advance, which we posit will change players' attitudes about discrimination.#gls
  10. Thank you for attending http://tinyurl.com/mzxg22. We will keep addressing questions regarding the Advance! project via twitter #gls #gls09
  11. Nielsen NetRatings (2008). Top site genres. Retrieved November 1, 2008, from Nielsen NetRatings website
  12. Take a look at work-in-progress sketches of the Advance! game that we are designing on our group blog: http://tinyurl.com/lcueh4
  13. Zimmerman, E. (2003). Play as research. In: Design Research, Laurel, B. (ed), pp 176-184, The MIT Press
  14. Huizinga, J. (1938). Homo ludens. London: Routledge.
  15. Gee, J. P. (2005). What videogames have to teach us about learning and literacy
  16. Wilensky, U. (2001). Emergent entities and emergent processes: Constructing emergence through multi-agent programming.
  17. Resnick, M. (1994). Turtles, termites and traffic jams: Explorations in massively parallel microworlds. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  18. In organizations discrimination against certain groups can occur even when no individual within the organization has discriminatory intent.
  19. Kuhn, D. (2007). Reasoning about multiple variables: Control of variables is not the only challenge.
  20. Michelene T. H. (2005) Commonsense Conceptions of Emergent Processes: Why Some Misconceptions Are Robust