For those of you who don’t know, the Digital Media Learning Competition is an annual competition started in 2007 funded by the government and other non-profit organizations (HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation) to award grants to help individuals and organizations come up with “the most novel uses of new media in support of learning.”
This year’s [...]

This is a topic I’ve been meaning to write a post about for some time now, namely what an educational game should look like.  Or probably better worded, what educational gaming means to me (and ultimately what we’re trying to do here at Hug a Panda).
The allure of educational games
For a long time people have [...]

You would think the answer would be straightforward, but the reality is that the answer to how much time Americn teens spend online depends on who you ask…
Some background.  I’ve been putting together a proposal for a project we are submitting for the Digital Media Learning competition.  You may or may not know that we [...]