Serious games and teaching intelligence analysis

Kris Wheaton, who teaches intelligence studies at Mercyhurst College, is among those who have used serious games in the classroom—in this case, to help students develop and sharpen their analytical skills. He also writes about it on his excellent blog on intelligence matters, Sources and Methods, which is very helpful for the rest of us too. As [...]

Play the Past

I’ve added a link in the links section to Play the Past, a truly outstanding website “dedicated to thoughtfully exploring and discussing the intersection of cultural heritage (very broadly defined) and games/meaningful play (equally broadly defined).” Although only launched back in September, you’ll already find articles on everything from the use of Civilization-style computer games as [...]

Model UN-ing

Ryan Villanueva wrote to let us know about a new blog on being the-very-model-of-a-modern model UN delegate, Best Delegate. In it, Ryan and his colleagues share their experiences and insights, with articles on everything from research to framing topics to delegate strategies, conference organization, and lots more beside. Both neophyte and experienced delegates will likely [...]

News Games

For those who haven’t seen it yet, a research team at Georgia Tech has an excellent blog on News Games that examines “the ways videogames can be used in the field of journalism, providing examples, theoretical approaches, speculative ideas, and practical advice about the past, present, and future of games and journalism.” There is a [...]

new simulation links

I’m buried under end-of-term grading at the moment and haven’t had much chance to post to PaxSims. I have, however, added a few new links to our list on the right, including these: CRISP: Crisis Simulation for Peace Santa Clara University: Conflict Resolution Simulation University of Michigan Interactive Communications and Simulations: Arab-Israeli Conflict Simulation If [...]

latest links

Up until now we’ve been simply adding links to the list on the right as we’ve run across interesting sites. The problem with that approach, however, is that regular readers won’t know when we’ve added something new. Consequently, I’m going to post to the main blog an occasional list of the some of the most [...]