The Day the Big Sites Came Calling
Normally, I’m the one scanning through major videogame discussion sites such as Gamasutra and Kotaku, looking for material related to educational videogames. This week, the opposite occurred, and it has been most interesting.
It all started when Simon Carless over at GameSetWatch.com mentioned my post on teaching ESL through MMORPGs. I started seeing traffic right away from Carless’ link, and noted GameSetWatch is in Technorati’s Top 10,000 blogs. (GameSetWatch is run by the same folks that bring us Gamasutra, one of the uber-gaming discussion sites. Carliss serves as editor for both).
In due course, Maggie Greene over at Kotaku read Carliss’ post, then read John Water’s article in THE Journal regarding ESL in MMORPGs, and blogged about it here. Carliss also linked to my original post on the article, and traffic has been coming in ever since.
What is most interesting are the posts to Greene’s article from English speaking players who picked up some Japanese or other languages through playing off-shore MMOPRGs.
All told, it was a nice week for the blog…
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November 5, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Congrats John. It’s great to see other recognize the great work you’ve been doing over here. I’m always thankful for your stories and insights.
paul
November 5, 2007 at 2:27 pm
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November 5, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Paul, thanks. We share mutual admiration.
JR
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