Dear colleagues, We invite you to join us for a Serious Games Research Forum at Purdue University, October 11-12, 2007. The keynote speaker will be James Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, and author of the recently released "Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy." Participants include Alice Robison, of MIT's Comparative Media Studies; Mia Consalvo, of Ohio University; Ben Stokes of MacArthur Foundation and Games to Change; Sheri Graner Ray, of Sirenia Games; Christoph Hoffmann, of Purdue University; Samantha Blackmon, of Purdue University; and others. In addition to humanistic and social science perspectives on serious games, the forum includes presentations from Purdue faculty in computer science, computer graphics technology, and engineering, with a presentation about the new games-based course in aerospace design planned for Fall 2008. There will be a Town Hall forum Thursday evening 7-9pm; the Friday research forum runs from 9am-3:45pm. The day ends with a tour of Purdue's Envision Center for Data Perceptualization, and a presentation by Gary Bertoline on cyber-enabled learning infrastructures. We will be live streaming (and archiving) the Friday 9 am keynote presentation; the remaining presentations will be podcast. More information can be found at: www.purdue.edu/dp/dlc/gameforum. Registration is recommended. We hope you can join us! Regards, Lorraine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Lorraine G. Kisselburgh Ph.D. candidate (Media, Technology, and Society / Organizational Comm ) Research Assistant, Department of Communication and Discovery Park Department of Communication * Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-2098 lorraine@purdue.edu * (765)-494-3429 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --