Kelly Boudreau

DiGRA: Morning Day 3

After spending another great evening in Uxbridge last night, and an on campus nightcap with a few friends, I woke up a bit late (seemed to have missed my alarm!), but still managed to make it to the morning’s panels on time. This morning’s first panel – Wii play: gestures, bodies and technologies – theContinue reading “DiGRA: Morning Day 3”

DiGRA Side Notes

I haven’t been able to blog yesterday and this morning, I was preparing my presentation and it sort of consumed all of me. We (Shanly Dixon and I) got to speak in a “Canadian Consortium” panel, with Alison Harvey and Nick Taylor. Our panel really flowed well – actually, the Women in Games sessions allContinue reading “DiGRA Side Notes”

Off To London

I am off this evening to London for the Digra: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory conference where I am presenting with my colleague Shanly Dixon on girls and videogames (will post abstract eventually). As always I am rushing around trying to finish up the last bit of packing, trying to findContinue reading “Off To London”

Prepping for DiGRA

No matter how long I work on a research project, no matter how many tomes of reading notes and ethnographic synthesis’, I always find myself up against the clock when preparing for any important presentation. This does not help my fear of public speaking. We are speaking on Tuesday, Sept. 02, so technically we areContinue reading “Prepping for DiGRA”

Hot Summer Days: Update #729

The first thing that pops into my head is a cheesy ’80’s song New Girl Now …click and laugh if you must, but do not judge – it was 1984 afterall! The last few days have been scorching hot (30 c + / 80 f + ); and there is at least another week ofContinue reading “Hot Summer Days: Update #729”

The Real Meaning of My “Vacations”

When I tell people that I went on vacation – usually for some exorbiant amount of time (5 weeks this summer – 10 weeks last summer!!) people always look at me enviously and utter how lucky I am. The thing is, while I am technically on vacation, away from home – usually out east, nearContinue reading “The Real Meaning of My “Vacations””

Back in the City

Another holiday has come and went, much too fast for my liking. August is a huge month – I will try to actually blog some content of the research that I am doing for a few projects (conference, thesis, etc…) instead of two liner personal updates. Unfortunately, for today, that’s all there is 😉

8-bit music + Weezer = Good Things

Thanks to gamesetwatch for this bit of info. If you like 8-bit music and like Weezer, then here is the (free) download for you from Pterodactyl Squad.

Summer Update

My month in eastern Canada has been steadily improving. What began as some sort of bad Canadian knock-off of monsoon season, is turning out to be a moderate comparison to the fun in the sun summers I remember – at least the sun is making an appearance, and the summer clothes I packed are finallyContinue reading “Summer Update”

Rainy Holiday

Am on my annual pilgrimage to eastern Canada for summer fun (and work of course). However, the forecast shows rain, rain and more rain. It is one of the few times I hope the weatherman is blatantly wrong – or else, why have the beach so close when you are stuck indoors! And the weatherContinue reading “Rainy Holiday”