Kym Buchanan Crimson Gargoyle

KymBuchanan.org

Educator & Gamer,
dancing to new rhythms

Email: kbuchana AT uwsp.edu

Who is Kym?

Everything Else

What's Kym playing?

5 stars Oblivion (The Elder Scrolls 4)
5 stars Boom Blox
5 stars Second Life
4 stars Super Mario Galaxy
5 stars Bioshock


Recent Favorites:
5 stars Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
4 stars Mario Superstar Baseball
5 stars Lego Star Wars 2
5 stars Okami

What's Kym watching?

Lookout, The 4 stars
Golden Compass, The 4 stars
Iron Man 4 stars
National Treasure: Book of Secrets 3 stars
30 Days of Night 3 stars
Appleseed: Ex Machina 4 stars
Heroes, Season 1 5 stars
Invincible Iron Man, The (2007) 3 stars
Aliens vs. Predator 2 3 stars
Contract, The (2006) 3 stars
No County for Old Men 3 stars

Recent Favorites:

I Am Legend 5 stars
Stardust 5 stars
Next 4 stars

What's Kym listening to?

4 stars All the Small Things (Blink-182)
4 stars Clocks (Coldplay)
5 stars Stupid Girls (Pink)

on iTunes external link and iPod

What's Kym reading?

3 stars Walden (Thoreau)

3 stars River of Gods (McDonald)

4 stars Miracle of Mindfulness, The (Hanh)

4 stars Courage to Teach, The (Courage)

Chrome Chalk Monster

blog | Ed . Psych . Tech . Games . Design

Videos from College Days for Kids

4 Jun 2008: I'm still working on the videos based on recordings from College Days for Kids. If you're looking for them, try back in a couple weeks. I regret the delay.

Video Games, Literacy, & 21st Century Skills

15 May 2008: Today I'm a featured speaker at the Adolescent Literacy Leadership Conference. Here's what I'll be talking about.

Art & Science of Video Games

3 Apr 2008: I'm talking about one of my favorite topics external link at College Days for Kids, for the next four Fridays.

Job Opening: Recruitment & Retention Coordinator

25 Mar 2008: I'm on the search and screen committee for this position. Please spread the word.

Super Smash Brothers Brawl

2008/03/11: The first two games in this series are easily the highest value of gameplay to price I have ever enjoyed (tied with the System Shock series). I'm looking forward to unlocking everything in this encyclopedia of Nintendo goodness.

Smash Brothers Characters

The More Things Change: Taming the Tempest of Pop Media & Tech

2007/11/08: I'm a featured speaker at the WCTE State Convention External link tomorrow. Here's what I'll be talking about.

Kym Laptop etc.

Sii

2007/06/12:

Kym Wii

Blood

Give Blood

2007/06/04: Today I made my 67th blood donation. I've been donating since I turned 18, almost as often as I can.

On Exactitude in Science

2007/05/30: "...In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained such Perfection that the Map of a Single province covered the space of an entire City, and the Map of the Empire itself an entire Province. In the course of Time, these Extensive maps were found somehow wanting, and so the College of Cartographers evolved a Map of the Empire that was of the same Scale as the Empire and that coincided with it point for point. Less attentive to the Study of Cartography, succeeding Generations came to judge a map of such Magnitude cumbersome, and, not without Irreverence, they abandoned it to the Rigours of sun and Rain. In the western Deserts, tattered Fragments of the Map are still to be found, Sheltering an occasional Beast or beggar; in the whole Nation, no other relic is left of the Discipline of Geography."

Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. English translation quoted from J. L. Borges, A Universal History of Infamy, Penguin Books, London, 1975.