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Hello, all!With the Opening Ceremonies just days away, we at the Learning Games Network thought we'd devote this month's Learning Games Series webinar on LearnCentral to those games.Specifically, we're welcoming Norman Cohen, a producer with NBC Learn to the session this Wednesday, February 10th at 7:30PM (Eastern Time) to join us and talk about NBC Learn's teaching resources on the Science of the Winter Olympics.  Their site,…See More

The Learning Games Network is working with Steve to sponsor a series of Web Events on using learning games for teaching. Our next (first) event in the series will deal with teasing lesson plans out of game and web-based content, using the Children's Hospital Boston's "Generation Cures" site and the online game "Caduceus" as an example. The link to the event is: http://www.learncentral.org/node/36234 .Additionally, for teachers in the Greater…See More

In advance of some upcoming interviews Steve has scheduled here over the next month or so, I wanted to go a little further with an introduction and request for some help.The Learning Games Network is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to encourage the development of--and facilitate the use of--games as effective learning tools. Much of our focus is on computer games, because of kids' inclinations these days and because of the ease of distribution through the web and online play. But…See More