http://liamodonnell.com/feed blogging life & creation for young minds Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:17:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last March, I wrote the post Levelling Up: two-digit math in kids' video games, about how I used experience points and coins in kids' mmos like Runescape and virtual worlds like Club Penguin to teach my Grade 5 students two-digit math. Writer Cora Lee and the editors at the ... http://liamodonnell.com/feed/2008/07/22/yes-mag-features-my-video-game-math-lessons/ Ok, so here's how it goes: Writer announces that he's delving into World of Warcraft, purely for research purposes ;) and doesn't blog for nearly a month. A classic case of gamer widowhood? Not really (honest!) I have been busy and there is much to report. For instance: Wild Ride has ... http://liamodonnell.com/feed/2008/07/21/writer-emerges-from-azeroth-with-writing-news/ Not only was yesterday Canada Day, but it was also the day I learned that Max Finder Mystery Collected Casebook Vol. 2 won a 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers in the United States. This is the second year in a row that my Max Finder Mystery ... http://liamodonnell.com/feed/2008/07/02/max-finder-wins-2nd-distinguished-achievement-award/ To celebrate my recent completion of my Bachelor of Education from OISE/UT, I decided to have a little fun and re-open the World of Warcraft account laying dormant on my hard drive. Part of this decision was to kick back and have some well-deserved fun, but it was also to ... http://liamodonnell.com/feed/2008/06/22/smashing-beasts-for-science/ I'm running out the door to sign at Book Expo, but I have to put up this assortment of voices denouncing Bill C-61, the new copyright law proposed by the Conservatives earlier this week. Overall, I agree that it's bad for Canadians and fantastic for Hollywood and the American record ... http://liamodonnell.com/feed/2008/06/15/why-the-proposed-copyright-law-is-bad-for-you-and-me/