medialiteracy | Liam O'Donnell

GamingEdus Minecraft Project on DMLCentral

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...

Minecraft Madness and Play at ECOO 2012

by liam | Oct 27, 2012 | appearances, education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, media, virtual worlds

Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of talking Minecraft with my two GamingEdu pals, Diana Maliszewski and Denise Colby and many, many fantastic educators at the ECOO 2012 conference. We were there presenting our talk: Playing with TNT and Other Lessons from...

New look, new posts

by liam | Sep 21, 2008 | media, writing news

It’s been quiet around here lately, but it’s not due to me having a lack of things I want to say. It’s all down to time and energy, of which I have had little when it comes to blogging. It’s the classic bloggers dilemma, so there’s little...

Doctorow tells librarians to reject DRM

by liam | Jul 28, 2008 | education, life, literacy, media

Last month I read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow and really liked it. Liked it so much that I wrote a review of it for the upcoming issue of Canadian Bookseller Magazine. Little Brother is a YA novel dealing with issues close to Doctorow’s heart (and mine):...