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6/30/2009 Don't miss NECC session "Learning in Color: Exploring Diversity in Children's Educational Digital Media" tomorrow at 8:30am, by CTR Editor Warren Buckleitner and GMU Professor Kevin Clark.

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Don't miss the ninth annual Dust or Magic Institute, Nov. 1-3, 2009 in Lambertville, NJ. Registration is now open.
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5/28/2009 Subscribers, the June issue has been posted and set via email. Login with your password.

5/27/2009 NYTimes Gadgetwise: Hidden Secrets of Your Wii Remote

5/6/2008 The May issue is in the Software Finder.
5/1/2009 On the cover our our May issue: the Intel ClassMate Convertible PC, modeled by CTR tester Ellie. We'll post the issue next week with all the details; plus the implications of what an under $500 tablet could have on an elementary school classroom. OLPC stands for One Laptop per Child. Below -- Chris Roberts of EA talks about how the thinking of Boom Blox helped turned the UI inside out in next for the Harry Potter title.

4/12/2009 The NSF funded WolfQuest.org is a "serious game" that is definitely worth the download, especially considering the multiplayer mode, that lets you and a friend team to survive in the wild. It is exactly the type of software that is transforming the school curriculum.

4/2/2009 In our April issue we consider the implications of the second generation iPod Touch and the third generation Nintendo DS. For years, people have struggled to explain what the "DS" stands for. When it was first introduced at E3, Nintendo called it "developer system" and later "dual screen." As of this week, there's a third meaning that is perhaps the most logical. The new DSi is like a Digital Sandbox, thanks to two integrated creativity tools: Nintendo DSi Sound and Nintendo DSi Camera. Plus there's the Nintendo DSi Shop with dozens of other blank icons that Nintendo hopes you'll fill with downloads from the Nintendo DSi store. One of the first downloads you'll want is the browser, which is free. There's a full review in the April issue.

3/23/2009 WEMTA attendees, here's the Top 163 Games for Libraries list I mentioned today, in PDF format. Here's the Mediatech Foundation slides.

3/17/09 The Bologna New Media Prize archive page has been updated.

3/10/09 Just finished an short segment on New Hampshire Public Radio's "Word of Mouth" program. Author Lisa Guernsey and I talked in general about some of the recent issues and questions surrounding children and technology.

3/1/09 Breaking news from Toy Fair 2009 on Webkinz.

2/23/2009 A busy week as I try to better understand Toy Fair. One product -- Leapfrog's new Zippity High Energy Learning System is a Disney/Leapfrog collaboration that features a waist high "bopper" sticking out of a dance pad. Here's an advance preview, for all those doctoral students out there trying to find something to study.

2/20/2009 Some interesting discussion on the development of the Nintendo DSi, here. My writeup in the New York Times provides a quick overview.

Masato Kuwahara, Nintendo Development Engineering Department

A great quote: "Well, this is Nintendo. We’re known the world over for our culture of “upending the tea table”*!

* "Upending the tea table" (chabudai gaeshi), is a reference to the classic Japanese comic and animated series, Hoshi of the Giants. The father in the series once upended the tea table while the family was eating a meal. Shigeru Miyamoto's working style has been compared to this because of his tendency to make last-minute suggestions that leave everyone else scrambling to implement them before the deadline."

2/12/2009 If you're at the KidScreen Summit today, come and visit some of our child testers-- in first person--at 3:15 PM in New York City.

2/3/2009 The February issue is posted in the Software Finder database, with 70 reviews, plus a set of links that will help you better understand what it might be like to be a kid in the White House. Download the PDF for LittleClickers, here.

1/12/09 What makes us different than the rest? We test, with real kids. Have a look at our testing process at Mediatech, where the kids throw some curves at the game producer for SimAnimals.

1/1/09 Happy New Year! We just shipped our January issue and are off to CES.

12/5/2008 We just shipped our December issue (right) to our subscribers.

11/24/2008MacArthur Foundation's ethnographic examination of how older kids use technology is well worth a read. In the study, 28 researchers interviewed 800 who use MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and other networked communities; and conducted diary studies to document how young people use digital media.

10/27/2008 Dust or Magic is full. Dates for next year are Nov. 1-3, 2009

10/8/2008 The October issue ships tomorrow

10/7/2008 Dust or Magic has 4 seats left.

9/1/2008 The September issue contains a really fun version of LittleClickers, plus a back to school technology checklist. Subscribers, log in to download the issue as a PDF.

8/4/08 We've managed to squeeze 76 titles into the August issue, including highlights from NECC and E3 '08.

7/26/2008 Sadly -- Dr. Randy Pausch, a guy who cared about empowering children with technology, died yesterday.

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