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	<title>Pablo Moreno-Ger's blog &#187; reflections</title>
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		<title>Vacation!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August is finally here, and it was about time I had a vacation! Last year I was in Boston and that pretty much prevented me from taking a proper long vacation. Although I will not disconnect entirely, this year I&#8217;m planning to take the month easy and get some rest, preparing for a very intense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I did in 2009&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, with a 7-month delay. In January 2009 I published a post summarizing my research activity in 2008. It ended with a question to myself: Would I be able to pull out another year as intense as 2008? Well, let’s see… The growth of the &#60;e-Adventure&#62; platform continued at an even higher pace. The incorporation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the challenges of online presence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear blog, It has (again) been months between posts, and in these months I have been thinking about blogging, tweeting, facebooking and other forms of online presence. I am registered in most web-based social forms of communication, but I am not really committed to any of them, all for different reasons. For instance, I started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promoted</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After completing a 4-month process in mid-october and nearly another month of paperwork, my promotion to Associate Professor is now complete. More specifically, I am now a &#8220;Profesor Contratado Doctor&#8221; and it is a tenured, non-civil servant position, with teaching and research duties. Obviously, this promotion means a lot for me. After many years in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The clases have begun&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.moreno-ger.com/2008/10/the-clases-have-begun.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, last week we started the classes at the School of Computer Science. I must confess that, even though I try to keep my students engaged by querying them during the class, I am not really using game-based content or game-like activities. I have been reflecting about this. Is it a hypocrisy to preach that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a doctor!</title>
		<link>http://www.moreno-ger.com/2007/12/im-a-doctor.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After summarizing 3 years of work in a 50-minute presentation  and 60 minutes of questioning , everything ended in victory and celebration. I got the highest possible grade and some very nice words from the members of the committee. The dissertation, entitled &#8220;A Documental Approach to the Creation and Integration of Educational Videogames in Virtual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A sudden realization</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear thesis: I&#8217;d like to share a revelation that I&#8217;ve had during my time here in Portugal. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you&#8217;re not actually a scientific work. Every scientific work on this planet is the result of a natural equilibrium between creativity, a relaxed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Randy Pausch at the CMU &#8220;Last Lecture&#8221; cycle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randy Pausch is a key academic figure in the fields of Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality and Serious Gaming. As a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, he created the amazing Building Virtual Worlds course, a reference in the field. He co-founded the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at CMU, which is also a reference as far as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unlike school, learning is fun&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and therefore, school is not learning. In the book mentioned in the previous post, Gee states that part of the reason why games are fun is precisely due to the satisfaction of learning them. What this means is that games tap into a common human trait, the satisfaction of mastery. This is neither new nor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back from Boston</title>
		<link>http://www.moreno-ger.com/2007/07/back-from-boston-2.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t I used that title before? Just a quick post to remind myself that I&#8217;m not dead, that I supposedly maintain a blog and that my vacations haven&#8217;t started yet. Mostly bad news. I&#8217;m currently trying to put together all the stuff I&#8217;ve done in the last few years about games and learning in a [...]]]></description>
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