ISTE Games & Sims Network’s monthly Ethics & Games webinar with Sherry Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ej-qvi425Y

Recording https://youtu.be/7Ej-qvi425Y

This month, Sherry Jones covered the The Talos Principle which is First-person puzzle game set in multiple worlds.

Ethics & Games: The Talos Principle by Que Jinn, on Flickr

ISTE Games & Sims Network did a Hangout on LitRPG.

It is new or developing literary genre that your students might be reading.
The upcoming movie based on the book, READY PLAYER ONE, is an example of LitRPG where the main character is inside a game or virtual world.


The overarching theme is usually fantasy or science fiction. Recording https://youtu.be/AZMz2rW_Kag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZMz2rW_Kag&feature=youtu.be


You can either watch the video or look at the slides to see its components are. Slides http://bit.ly/introlitRPGslides

Intro to LitRPG by Que Jinn, on Flickr

Brainstorming/Visioning Meeting for Metagame Book Club
Wednesday February 14 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT
READY PLAYER ONE 2018 sign [Autosaved] by kaezenovka, on Flickr

On Friday February 23 at 3 pm ET/1 pm MT

We will be holding a Rapid Response Hangout
The topic will be Net Neutrality with a discussion of FEB 27 Operation #OneMoreVote
Hangout Link https://youtu.be/_L8wVC2xTTo

Net Neutrality Part 2 by kaezenovka, on Flickr

The ISTE Games & Sims will be doing the Ready Player One book club! The online book club will run March 12 - April 8, 2018

Yes, the group purposely timed our last week to be the week that the movie comes out! That way we are all caught up and ready to compare the movie with our imaginations and see what wins out. :D

We do have a sign-up ready http://bit.ly/readyplayeronesignup

Ready Player 101 Playground by Que Jinn, on Flickr

This monthly series provides in-depth discussions that offers an in-depth analysis of 1 game's narrative/aesthetics/mechanics level by level, Explain how the game's design imparts and/or promotes certain ethical values and Introduce 1 or more ethical theory that demonstrates or counters the game's ethical values (ex. discuss whether the game's imparted ethical values are regressive or progressive for the betterment of society.)

ISTE Games & Sims by kaezenovka, on Flickr

We had an ISTE Games & Sims Network hangout with Sherry Jones @autnes doing her inaugural Ethics and Games webcast on Fallout Shelter.

Ethics and Games by kaezenovka, on Flickr

Fallout Shelter Mobile game
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bethsoft.falloutshelter&hl=en
Fallout Shelter Game http://www.falloutshelter.com/ #FalloutShelter
Hangout link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVPQTq6mgU8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVPQTq6mgU8

This webinar has been indexed - so click on “Show More” underneath video on YouTube so you can see how it was divided up.

This monthly series provides in-depth discussions that offers an in-depth analysis of 1 game's narrative/aesthetics/mechanics level by level, Explain how the game's design imparts and/or promotes certain ethical values and Introduce 1 or more ethical theory that demonstrates or counters the game's ethical values (ex. discuss whether the game's imparted ethical values are regressive or progressive for the betterment of society.)

Dr. Cynthia Calongne, Colorado Technical University professor, game designer and researcher will be presenting Games and 3D Simulations: Dystopian Fears to Utopian Visions. Livestream and padlet here.

In the book club, we’ve discussed virtual reality, gamification and the quantified self, games as assessment and what school would look like if it was in virtual world. We’ve played Ingress guided in hangouts by Michael Flood and also Cynthia Clark, the Fauxasis created by Matthew Winner (real name) for the Level Up Book Club and even a group of dystopian games curated by Jon Spike.


Closing Keynote - Ready Player One by kaezenovka, on