THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, COMMUNITY, AND VALUES

October 2003 - Volume 3, Issue 7

Mary Chalmers is Visiting Assistant Professor at Butler University. She has taught European and World history for eight years at a variety of colleges and universities. She has had the opportunity to try out the scavenger hunt in historical research and historiography courses at the University of Central Arkansas and Kenyon College.

Chris Pruett develops video games as a lead programmer at Vicarious Visions, Inc. His work includes Disney's Finding Nemo, and Crash Bandicoot Advance 2: N-Tranced, as well as several other titles for Nintendo's GameBoy Advance. In addition to game design and computer programming, Chris spends a lot of time studying Japanese. The opinions he expresses are his own, and do not necessarily reflect his employer.

Mark Szymanski, Grants and Funding Editor, is a Berglund Fellow and teaches at Pacific University in the School of Education and is a Research Associate at the Center for Advanced Technology in Education at the University of Oregon. If you have information as to grant or funding opportunites you would like listed in the Journal, please contact Mark.

October 2003

Volume 3, Issue 7

Feature

Mary E. Chalmers - The Scavenger Hunt: Sample Questions

Education

Anne Clemens, Traci Moore and Brian Nelson - Math Intervention "SMART"...

Health

Kevin Kawamoto - Healthy Learning Can Be Fun: Digital Media and Health...

Gaming

Chris Pruett - The Evolution of Video Games

Grants and Funding

Mark Szymanski - Biology and Games: Changing the Medium to Maximize...

Book and Site Review

John Douglas's Anyone You Want Me to Be. A True Story of Sex and Death...

Book and Site Review

Steven L. Kent's The Ultimate History of Video Games

Editorial

Upon the Importance (and Dangers) of Playing Video Games