by liam | Jan 14, 2014 | literacy, writing news
I have a lot of story ideas. It comes with the territory. Some are good. Some should be taken down to the lake and, y’know . . . Others should be left to simmer in one of my many, many notebooks. While they simmer, they evolve. Sometimes they evolve into...
by liam | Nov 20, 2013 | gaming, literacy, Uncategorized, video games, virtual worlds, writing news
I’ve written over 30 books and graphic novels for kids over the last decade. I like them all. A lot. I’m always happy when the first printed copies arrive at my door. I get to hold them, put them on my bookshelf, show them to my family, so they know that...
by liam | Aug 8, 2013 | education, literacy, Teacher's Guide
I fill many roles in my daily life: children’s writer, digital games-based-learning critic and advocate and virtual world community manager and finally elementary school teacher. The recent tragicĀ events of children taking their own lives because of online...
by liam | Jul 9, 2013 | appearances, education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, Teacher's Guide, video games, virtual worlds
About a month ago, I had the honour of speaking with the legendary Howard Rheingold about the GamingEdus Minecraft project I launched with some amazing teachers and the folks at EDGE Lab at Ryerson University. Our chat was for a larger piece for DML Central, about...
by liam | May 11, 2013 | appearances, comics, education, literacy, Teacher's Guide, writing news
I recently ran a four week Writing Comics Workshop for young writers at the amazing Toronto Public Library. Each Saturday, I met with 25 creators aged 8 – 12 years and we went through the steps to writing our own comics. We focused on using words to create story...