Professors at Play, Bluey, AI, and more!

[Laura Paciorek]

Hello, everyone:

I just received this email and wanted to share it with you all. The books are Creative Commons licensed. I haven't read all of them thoroughly, but I did skim through the Professors at Play AI PlayBook and the Psychgeist of Pop Culture - Bluey book this morning. I will put the full email below, but here are the TOCs from those two books.

BLUEY BOOK TOC:

Psychgeist of Pop Culture Series xi
Preface xiii
This episode of Bluey is called... 1
KelliI Dunlap, PsyD and Grant

The Ludology of Ludo Studios 9
Samuel Liberty

Yes, And: The Power of Improvisational Parenting 27
Max Rabbe, M.A.

“I want to play it the proper way”: Social Contracts
of Play 35
Sasha Soraine, PhD

Magic Claw: Why Challenge Makes Games Fun 51
Megan Pusey, PhD

Dance Mode and Dragons: Family Makes Us Who
We Are 67
Alison White, MS, LCPC

It’s a Baby Race: The Impossible Expectations of
Motherhood 81
Marie Shanley & Anna Kyra Hooton

Unmasking Parental Perfection: Laughing Through
Chaos and Feeling Seen 89
Ashley Elliott, PsyD

Show, Not Tell: Parenting and Social Learning
Theory 107
Phillip Hawley, PsyD

Beyond the Bark: Modern Fatherhood with a 'Paw-
sitive' Attitude 123
Nick Schiner

Let the Kids Fail 137
Jennifer Russell, LMSW

Early Baby: Psychological E"ects of Premature Birth
and the Importance of Representation on TV 155
Stefani Pautz Stephenson, Ed.D.

Heeler’s Playroom: Processing Childhood Trauma
Through Play 173
Rachel A. Altvater, PsyD., RPT-STM

For Real Life: Exploring Imaginative Play
Experiences From Media 191
Rebecca Horrace, Ed.D.

Condensed Milk, Hats and Hand Signals: How
Army Helped me in Living With ADHD 209
Georgie Reeve

Attention! Being at Ease with ADHD in Army 215
Giuseppe William Femia

The Bene"t of Being Born Yesterday: Living a New
Today, Everyday 235

Vinny Malik Dehili, PhD, CGP, ABPP
Fan Art 243

AI HANDBOOK TOC:

Contents
INTRO 1
MAKE MUSIC 8
ANIMATE DRAWINGS 10
REWRITE PROSE 12
GENERATE QR CODES 14
ILLUMINATE MANUSCRIPTS 16
MAKE SLIDES 18
ANIMATE IMAGES 20
GENERATE A TO-DO LIST 22
SIMULATE A VOICE 24
FIND PLACES 26
TAKE APART A SONG 28
MAKE A COMIC BOOK 30
CREATE ICONS 32
TALK TO MARIO 34
TELL A STORY 36
GENERATE SOUND EFFECTS 38
BUILD AN APP 40
THE WONDERS OF CHATGPT 42

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EMAIL:

I wanted to share the launch of a new academic publishing consortium, Play Story Press. In a nutshell, this is a new initiative from the crew behind Carnegie Mellon's ETC Press (publisher of the Professors at Play PlayBook). PSP represents a consortium of organizations interested in academic publishing and new models for the dissemination of scholarship. You can find more about press here: 

https://playstorypress.org/about/

Eagle-eye readers of the Professors at Plat AI PlayBook will notice that it was published by Play Story Press, under the Professors at Play Publications at Play imprint. So, Professors at Play is officially a part of the consortium as well!

These new books were just released and should be of interest to many in our community:

The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Bluey, edited by Kelli Dunlap, PsyD 

https://playstorypress.org/books/the-psychgeist-of-pop-culture-bluey/

The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: The Umbrella Academy, edited by Arienne Ferchaud, PhD

https://playstorypress.org/books/the-psychgeist-of-pop-culture-the-umbrella-academy/ 

ToDiGRA: Nordic DiGRA Special Issues, edited by Lina Eklund, Björn Sjöblom, Jon Back.

https://playstorypress.org/books/todigra-nordic-digra-special-issue-vol-6-no-3/

https://playstorypress.org/books/todigra-nordic-digra-special-issue-vol-7-no-1/

We are quite excited to be a part of the consortium and feel like this is a positive step in making scholarship more widely available. Please share!