Regina Kaplan-Rakowski and I have a new book chapter in press! The title of the chapter is Modding and Rezzing in Games and Virtual Environments for Education, and it has been accepted for publication in Y.K. Baek’s new book: Gaming for Classroom-Based Learning: Digital Role Playing as a Motivator of Study, to be published by IGI-Global, Hershey, PA.

Book publishers (such as IGI Global) are increasingly insisting authors to provide permission of use for screenshots (of Web pages, and video games). However, from my experience, it is near impossible to obtain written permission for such things, much less a signed release form! (I firmly believed game publishers simply ignore emails requests for permission of use.)

We decided to be creative about putting images in book chapters. Below are the two images (in full color) intended for our book chapter. (You can click on the image to see it in full resolution.)

Figure 1: Regina creating (rezzing) a simple chair outside a restaurant.

Figure 2: A Tea-Party held in World of Warcraft (WoW) to protest about the weak Warrior class. The dress code for the day was “gnomes in semi-nudity.”