{"id":1446,"date":"2008-11-04T16:47:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T22:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2008-11-04T16:47:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T22:47:39","slug":"gd-keynote-november-4th-glls08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/gd-keynote-november-4th-glls08\/","title":{"rendered":"GD Keynote November 4th GLLS08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/techsource-logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1431\" title=\"techsource-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/techsource-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re back! 4 surprisingly warm days in Chicago in an executive suite (got a deal, yay Orbitz), a couples massage, several fine bottles of wine accompanying several excellent meals and we saw a Second City show (that&#8217;s the improv troop that most of the classic SNL stars came from). Ah, what a great 10th anniversary with the woman I&#8217;m still mad for.\u00a0Then it was off to Oak Brook to talk to some librarians. How&#8217;d it go? Fantastic. Libraries aren&#8217;t fond of censorship and they&#8217;ve been lending movies and music for long enough that they don&#8217;t fear games.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This was a positive experience. I was only nervous because the previous keynote speakers, Kutner and Prensky, are authors.<\/p>\n<p>GamerDad isn&#8217;t a scholarly endeavor. I preach a new kind of common sense about games and it&#8217;s a message that people seem to really like. My speech delved a bit into the history of violence controvery and media, covered the basics of videogame history, and gave practical advice.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/gaming.ala.org\/news\/2008\/11\/04\/gamer-dad-helping-kids-parents-find-the-right-games\/\">Actually, this guy summed up my speech pretty nicely!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to thank Reasearch Quest Paul and ALA Techsource&#8217;s Jenny Levine and I also want to thank all the nice men and women who appreciated my views. I was treated very warmly, the Library looks like a safe refuge and ally in the videogame debates. And, what a great way to reach parents!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back! 4 surprisingly warm days in Chicago in an executive suite (got a deal, yay Orbitz), a couples massage, several fine bottles of wine accompanying several excellent meals and we saw a Second City show (that&#8217;s the improv troop that most of the classic SNL stars came from). Ah, what a great 10th anniversary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}