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Introducing Tech Tales

Digital Stories for Digital Readers I’m excited to announce the arrival of Tech Tales, a brand new series of short stories for middle grade readers available exclusively as digital downloads. Written...

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From the Vault: My interview with James Paul Gee from 2004

Back in 2003, I was a struggling freelance writer with a few graphic novels for kids under my belt. I was pitching articles to magazines, playing a lot of video games and wondering if a career in...

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Writing Comics Workshop for Kids Session 2: Creating Characters

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...

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Alternative Texts in Schools: Future of Videogames = History of Comics

I spent much of June talking to teachers and other folks about video games in schools. I spoke about play and alternative texts with amazing educators at the recent 2013 COCA Retreat. And I had a blast...

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Seeing E-books from three sides: why writers, readers and teachers win

If you haven’t already noticed, e-books have kinda knocked the whole publishing industry on its head. I haven’t written much about  those changes around here, but I think about it a lot. That’s because...

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Three newly releasesd books to tackle online bullying in your classroom

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 tragic...

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Bringing the Minecraft to ECOO 2013

I’ll be yammering on about Minecraft a lot this October at the upcoming ECOO 2013 conference, in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Last year’s ECOO Minecraft Madness was a lot of fun and this year promises to be...

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Why I’m Launching Ganked Quietly in a Noisy World

Friday was a bit of a quiet celebration day around here. First, it was Friday and that always puts a spring in my step. Second, my young adult gamer geek mystery, Ganked was officially released into...

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Feeding Change Dings Ten. What the – !?

Yikes! I just realized that four days ago, this blogged turned 10 years old. Ten. Wow. It all started with this post in 2003 where I railed against Flat Stanely cozying up to Karl Rove from Bush Inc....

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How my talk on comics got hijacked (and then saved) by that blocky game

So, here’s the scene: It’s a busy Saturday at the Toronto Public Library’s Book Bash children’s festival. There’s kids running around everywhere in the TPL’s Northern Branch. There’s stacks of books...

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Minecraft, the paper clip and me

[This post originally appeared on GamingEdus.] This was meant to be a post about using Minecraft Pocket Edition with Grade 1 students. But given the giant paper clip in the room, that post will have to...

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Tank & Fizz Advanced Reading Copy actually exists!

It seems every day I come home there’s something cool waiting for me in the mailbox. On Friday, it was this. Today, it was the awesome book pictured below: Tank & Fizz 1: The Case of the Slime...

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Seven Steps to Setting up a Minecraft Club at your School

[This post originally appeared on GamingEdus.org, but you missed it, didn’t you?] With October behind us and the school year in full swing here in Ontario, I finally got a chance to do something I...

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Tank & Fizz are coming and they have a book trailer to prove it!

Ready for the monster invasion? Don’t worry, the beasts I’m talking about are in the fourth grade and eat choco-slug cookies, not people. That’s right, I’m talking about Tank & Fizz, my newest...

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Slimetastic reviews for Tank & Fizz: The Case of the Slime Stampede!

Turns out book reviewers like goblins and trolls. Who knew? With the launch for Tank & Fizz: The Case of the Slime Stampede only a few weeks again, reviews are rolling in and so far they’ve been...

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Four More Essential Plugins for Minecraft School Servers

About two years ago, I made a promise to write a follow-up to my post: Essential plugins for Minecraft servers. That post never happened. I am a bad blogger. And more than one visitor to this blog and...

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Nether Nightmare launches. Chaos ensues.

Okay, the only chaos is me running around my kitchen giggling with glee that Nether Nightmare is now available online! Judging from the early reviews coming in, I’m not the only one who is happy to...

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How my talk on comics got hijacked (and then saved) by that blocky game

So, here’s the scene: It’s a busy Saturday at the Toronto Public Library’s Book Bash children’s festival. There’s kids running around everywhere in the TPL’s Northern Branch. There’s stacks of books...

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Minecraft, the paper clip and me

[This post originally appeared on GamingEdus.] This was meant to be a post about using Minecraft Pocket Edition with Grade 1 students. But given the giant paper clip in the room, that post will have to...

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Tank & Fizz Advanced Reading Copy actually exists!

It seems every day I come home there’s something cool waiting for me in the mailbox. On Friday, it was this. Today, it was the awesome book pictured below: Tank & Fizz 1: The Case of the Slime...

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