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Howdy, my name is Sean C. Duncan and welcome to my website! I'm a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and a member of the Games+Learning+Society Initiative here. I study and write about a number of things: games, learning, participatory culture, fandom, and digital media. Please feel free to check out the links in the pretty yellow bar above: More about me and my fascinating life, my curriculum vita, a page on my dissertation research (Gamers As Designers), a page about my broader research interests (Games and Learning), or scroll down and read posts to my blog and my more frequent Twittering and Flickring. Thanks for stopping by, and feel free to contact me via any of the means listed below if there's anything I can do for you.

THIS IS A DISASTER

Hi everyone! It’s been ages since I’ve posted — I’m basically using Twitter as a daily (sometimes more often than that) blogging thing. I’ll probably get around to fixing up this site one of these days, who knows?
But, hey, I just had to post about my 15 seconds of Trekkie nerddom fame. [...]

Rock Band > Guitar Hero 3

Well, hey, lookie here, I’m in the local paper!
Last week, Rob Thomas of the Capital Times called me up to talk to me about a paper I wrote for an educational psychology class last spring, on expertise in Guitar Hero. I’ve posted on this little blog about that paper before, but in case you [...]

A US Spaced?

Here’s a press release I saw this morning on a LiveJournal community about the TV show Spaced, one of my favorites of the past handful of years:

Fox, Barr and McG Adapting Spaced
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
October 30, 2007
Fox is teaming with writer Adam Barr and producer McG for “Spaced,” a comedy project based on the Channel [...]

I Love You, Boston Red Sox

I can’t believe it. Twice in my lifetime? Twice in three years? This is unreal.
The Red Sox are World Series victorious yet again, and I find myself just plain giddy today. I’ve been a fan of the Red Sox since I was about 10 and I got to see Carl Yastrzemski [...]

You’ve Got A Red Shirt On You

I can’t get over how weird this news is — Simon Pegg (Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, etc.) has been cast as the new Montgomery Scott in J. J. Abrams’ new Star Trek feature film. It’s a weird bit of casting, but one that I suspected a long time ago might happen [...]

LOLPEAKS

My Internet pal Roxy and others have been keeping the lolcats thing going for a while through pretty goofy applications of lolcat captions to various other things — there’s of course LOLTrek, LOLWho, LOLPotter, etc. She started rewatching Twin Peaks the other day and now has me caught up in making LOLPeaks for no [...]

Happy Birthday, Star Trek

September 8th, the birthday of Star Trek, the TV that for better or worse, is the one I know the most about. Forty-one years young, and ready to start anew with some guy from Lost and some dude from Heroes. I haven’t had much time to post in the past few weeks, but [...]

Learning To Be a Sherlockian

I’ve had a fun week — my father and stepmother came into town and we had a few days of seeing the local sights, as well as going out to see plenty of music (from a free symphony performance to a musical to some live music in the park). Good times, and through it [...]

A Holmes Follow-up

Some readers of this weblog asked me to follow-up a little bit on my newfound Holmes fascination, and my attending the meeting of the Notorious Canary-Trainers on Sunday. Like I said in the earlier post, I had a great time and was very impressed with both the voluminous Holmes knowledge everyone had, as well [...]

 

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