Following up on Kris’s recent post featuring Game evangelist Jane McGonigal being interviewed about games and learning, here’s a few more of her videos. A full page of them is available here.
Then there’s her identical twin, Kelly McGonigal who describes herself as a “health psychologist”…PSA likes to point out that learning and doing DIY healthcare isn’t a whole lot different from learning any other capability…so a health psychologist such as Kelly and Game Guru such as Jane get our attention for multiple intertwined and twinned reasons.
The first below initially fooled me into thinking Jane was now a happiness guru, but no, it’s Kelly.
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Then the next three are Jane:
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From the Colbert Report:
