Katie Salen

Biography

Katie Salen is the Executive Director of the Institute of Play, and an Associate Professor in the Design and Technology program at Parsons, the New School for Design. Co-author of Rules of Play, a textbook on game design, as well as The Game Design Reader (MIT Press, 2004 and 2006), she recently completed an edited volume for the MacArthur series on Digital Media and Learning called The Ecology of Games and is serving as co-editor of The International Journal of Learning and Media (MIT Press). Katie just completed a stint as lead designer on Gamestar Mechanic, a game developed by Gamelab to teach young people the play and practice of game design fundamentals. She lectures and writes extensively on game design, design education, and game culture, including authoring some of the first dispatches from the previously hidden world of machinima.

Sessions

• GameBot Demo
  Wednesday, June 10

  5:00–7:00

  Great Hall (4th floor, Central)
• Respondent, Presentations on Designing Games for Learning: PostMortems, Insights, & Challenges
  
  Wednesday, June 10
  2:00–3:00
  Inn Wisconsin (2nd floor, East/Southeast)