Oh, by no means am I dissing books. It makes me sad to see less books in the libraries. I'm kind of not fond that music/movies are in there... but I'd like to see more comics/video games? If that makes ANY amount of sense.

And since I am a complete techno nerd, I'm super into e-books... ever heard of Project Gutenberg? Since I have a palm pilot, I can carry that with me, and it holds more books than my backpack good. But I like the feel of paper books better.

Oh, the entertainment games are wonderful. I've been stalking researching a group in the UK that actually did a big study on off the shelf games (they used The Sims, Rollercoaster Tycoon, and some other one I can't remember off the top of my head...) and using them for education. They came up with some novel ways to do that (the one that comes to mind is using The Sims with the French language turned on to teach French vocab... I wouldn't have thought of that).

Really, the thing about using a game to educate is about the goals of the experience. I think the main problem is that a lot of teachers I've talked to just don't see what they want to accomplish in that kind of teaching, you know?

And yes, that was Cary Grant. This next icon is David Bowie. Older men are wonderful.

~Cendri