The Classifieds brings you weekly news from around the WoW community, including our famous Random Acts of Uberness shout-outs to players who make your WoW sessions memorable.

The librarian guild Where is the library on Saurfang (US-A) is doing something unique and interesting. On Nov. 17, they will meet in the Ironforge library to talk about cognition and learning in MMOs. Check out what they have to say about it:

18 November 9.00am (Australian Eastern Summer time) Crystle Martin will be talking about cognition and learning in MMOs and the constellation of information that surround them, focusing on topics of literacy including information literacy. She is the lead project assistant for the PopCosmo research group led by Constance Steinkuehler and a member of Games+Learning+Society.

You can read more about this effort, part of a regular series of talks for library professionals on gaming in libraries, on the group’s event page. It’s definitely worth taking the time to attend the discussion. Good luck to Where is the library on getting a good showing!

Continue reading The Classifieds: Calling all game scholarsFiled under: The ClassifiedsThe Classifieds: Calling all game scholars originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
The Classifieds brings you weekly news from around the WoW community, including our famous Random Acts of Uberness shout-outs to players who make your WoW sessions memorable.

The librarian guild Where is the library on Saurfang (US-A) is doing something unique and interesting. On Nov. 17, they will meet in the Ironforge library to talk about cognition and learning in MMOs. Check out what they have to say about it:

18 November 9.00am (Australian Eastern Summer time) Crystle Martin will be talking about cognition and learning in MMOs and the constellation of information that surround them, focusing on topics of literacy including information literacy. She is the lead project assistant for the PopCosmo research group led by Constance Steinkuehler and a member of Games+Learning+Society.

You can read more about this effort, part of a regular series of talks for library professionals on gaming in libraries, on the group’s event page. It’s definitely worth taking the time to attend the discussion. Good luck to Where is the library on getting a good showing!

Continue reading The Classifieds: Calling all game scholarsFiled under: The ClassifiedsThe Classifieds: Calling all game scholars originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments