By Natalie Houston. From playing games, to teaching with games, making your own games, and even gamifying your email — the ProfHacker archives have a lot to offer when thinking about games.
Games in the Classroom
Anastasia has written a very thorough series of posts on Games in the Classroom:

1. Part 1 explains that games can help students through exploring content through new or multiple points of view, learning through making, and collaboration.

2. Part 2 explains how and where to discover games that you might want to use in the classroom

3. Part 3 introduces tools and concepts for making games in the classroom

4. Part 4 discusses multiplayer games as models for education. More...

By Amy Cavender. Many of us have more than one email account these days. I have several, I’m afraid, though I don’t need to use all of them regularly (thankfully!). Still, there are three that I use on an almost daily basis: my personal account, my main work account, and the account of the office I currently direct. While I could use a desktop email client to manage my email (and I sometimes do, for backup purposes if nothing else), all three are GMail accounts. Since I also make extensive use of Google Calendar and Google Drive with all three, there are some advantages to working in a browser most of the time. More...

By George Williams. After years of speculation from users, Microsoft has finally introduced a version of their Office suite of applications for the iPad. As their description on the product’s web page explains, you can
[v]iew, create, and edit Office documents on your iPad® with touch-friendly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps. In Word, add comments or track changes while you work together with others. Review and update Excel spreadsheets and add formulas or charts. Change PowerPoint presentations and project them wirelessly on a big screen.
There’s one thing that might be considered a catch, however: “Editing and creating documents with Office for iPad requires an eligible Office 365 subscription.” Without that subscription, you can only view files in the native apps. More...

By George Williams. On my campus the semester has just about a month of regular classes left, which means that it’s time to start taking stock of what’s been done, what’s almost finished, and what still needs to be wrapped up. Committee deadlines approach, student projects near completion, and research tasks need to be completed over the next month or so. More...

By George Williams. Independently of each other, a small number of people have recently asked about the workflow involved in publishing a group-authored blog like ProfHacker. Now I don’t pretend that the way we do things is the best way possible, but I’m happy to describe how we go about publishing 2 posts a day, 5 days a week. If you’re involved in a similar project that uses a different workflow, feel free to share the details in the comments to this post. More...