CONSORTIUM NEWS

The National Science Foundation awards a three-year grant for the development, implementation and assessment of new science games as part of the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program. The new RTTP Science Initiative is a collaboration among Trinity College, Barnard College, Elon University, and James Madison University. Special thanks to David Henderson (Trinity College) for taking the lead on this initiative! Information about new games will be distributed in early fall 2009. | Read about the project and view the RFP for New Game Designs . . .

UT Prof. Eric Mallin publishes article "On Game Playing and the Uses of Uncertainty" in English Language Notes 47.1 (Spring/Summer 2009).

Steven J. Stroessner, Laurie Susser Beckerman, and Alexis Whittaker publish "All the World’s a Stage? Consequences of a Role-Playing Pedagogy on Psychological Factors and Writing and Rhetorical Skill in College Undergraduates" in the Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 101, Issue 3 (08/2009).

Professor David Tabb Stewart's work on "The Josianic Reform" game featured at California State University, Long Beach. | Read online . . .

Eastern Michigan University Professor Mark Higbee publishes chapter, "How Reacting to the Past Games 'Made Me Want to Come to Class and Learn': An Assessment of the Reacting Pedagogy" in Jeffrey L. Bernstein, ed., Making Learning Visible: The Scholarship of Learning at EMU (Ypsilanti, MI: Eastern Michigan University, 2008) | View PDF version. . . .

Saint Joseph's University Professor Jeff Hyson's class is "Changing History, and the Way it is Taught" | Read online. . . .

Mcaniel College Professor Gretchen McKay's “Modernism vs. Traditionalism: Art in Paris, 1888-89” featured in campus news | Read online. . . .

New Game Designs: 2008-09 RFP Results

Tracy Lightcap (LaGrange College) publishes article, "Creating Political Order: Maintaining Student Engagement through Reacting to the Past", in PS: Political Science and Politics (2009), 42: 175-179. | Read online. . . . 

The Reacting Advisory Board announced Request for Proposals for New Game Designs. Please note that the submission deadline was November 15, 2008  |  View proposal guidelines (PDF). . .

Adam Porter (Illinois College) publishes "Role-Playing and Religion: Using Games to Educate Millenials" in Teaching Theology & Religion 11, No. 4. (2008), 230-235. | Read online. . .

Carl A. Anderson (Michigan State University) and T. Keith Dix (University of Georgia) publish "'Reacting to the Past' and the Classics Curriculum: Rome in 44 BCE" in the Classical Journal 103.8  |  Read more...

David E. Henderson (Trinity College) publishes "Implementing Methodological Secularism: The Teaching and Practice of Science in Contentious Times," in Secularism & Science in the 21st Century  |  View online...

History professors Margaret Sankey and Sean Taylor (Minnesota State University Moorhead) awarded NEH Teaching American History grant for a three-year project, “American Crossroads, Teaching History on the Great Plains”  |  Visit MSUM announcement page...

Historian Andrew Keitt's “Galileo, Darwin and the Disenchantment of the World” class featured in the University of Alabama Reporter (Apr. 14, 2008)  |  Read online...

The Daily Texan profiles University of Texas Professor Larry Carver's course in "History at Play" (Mar. 26, 2008)  |  Read online...

McDaniel College's First-Year Seminar Program featured in AAC&U Member Innovations: "Undergraduate Science: Engaging the Big Questions and Increasing Achievement" (Mar. 2008)  |  Read more at http://www.aacu.org...

Tracy Lightcap (LaGrange College) presents a paper entitled "Reacting to the Past: Extended Simulations and the Learning Experience in Political Science" at the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference  (Feb. 22, 2008)  |  Download PDF online...

Queens College Professors Ann Davison and Sue Lantz Goldhaber publish "Integration, Socialization, Collaboration: Inviting Native and Non-Native English Speakers into the Academy Through 'Reacting to the Past'", in Reclaiming the Public University: Conversations on General & Liberal Education (2007)  |   Read more...