Trading Cards Research Articles

Create Dog Trading Cards for Your Pet Therapy Program

Create Dog Trading Cards for Your Pet Therapy Program

Confessions from the Principal’s Kid by Robin Mellom

Reviewed by: Confessions from the Principal’s Kid by Robin Mellom Elizabeth Bush Mellom, Robin Confessions from the Principal’s Kid. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017 [272p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-544-81379-3 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-328-69899-5 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 4-6 Having Mom as a teacher in her school was perfectly okay with Allie West. Having Mom as the principal . . . well, not so much. Classmates now mistrust Allie as a potential snitch—and with some justification, after she blew the whistle on her best friend, Chloe, in an incident involving banned trading cards. With no real social life, fifth-grader Allie hangs around before school with the maintenance and kitchen ladies, whom she genuinely likes, and after school with three other “Afters,” staff kids stuck in the building until their parents are ready to leave. Allie would like to regard fellow After Graham as a true friend, but he’s considered a nerdy outlier. What she really wants is reconciliation with Chloe, but Mom’s well-intentioned meddling backfires, and Allie is singin’ the middle-grade blues. Mellom has the makings of an involving tale here, but she’s hard on her heroine, laying the burden of a couple of Allie’s mainly innocent missteps and misunderstandings almost entirely on her fifth-grade shoulders. It’s Allie, and Allie alone, who is given the life lessons to learn, while the family and acquaintances who contribute to her problems are largely off the hook. Still, readers who’ve ever pondered what goes on in the school building when students are not around may enjoy a sympathetic look at the kids who remain in lockdown after the dismissal bell rings. Copyright © 2017 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

A Secure Protocol for Exchanging Cards in P2P Trading Card Games Based on Transferable E-Cash

Trading card games (TCG) differ from traditional card games mainly because the cards employed are not shared among players in a match. Instead, users play with the cards they own (e.g., purchased or traded with other players), which corresponds to a subset of all cards produced by the game provider. Even though most computer-based TCGs rely on a trusted third-party (TTP) for preventing cheating during trades, allowing them to securely do so without such entity remains a challenging task. Potential solutions are related to e-cash protocols, but, unlike the latter, TCGs allow users to play with the cards under their possession, not only to pass those cards over. In this work, we present the security requirements of TCGs and how they relate to e-cash. We then propose a concrete, TTP-free protocol for anonymously trading cards, using as basis a secure transferable e-cash protocol.

A Secure Protocol for Exchanging Cards in P2P Trading Card Games Based on Transferable e-cash

Trading card games (TCG) distinguish from traditional card games mainly because the cards are not shared between players in a match. Instead, users play with the cards they own (e.g., purchased or traded with other players), which corresponds to a subset of all cards produced by the game provider. Even though most computer-based TCGs rely on a trusted third-party (TTP) for preventing cheating during trades, allowing them to securely do so without such entity remains a challenging task. Actually, potential solutions are related to e-cash protocols, but, unlike the latter, TCGs require users to play with the cards under their possession, not only to be able to pass those cards over. In this work, we present the security requirements of TCGs and how they relate to e-cash. We then propose a concrete, TTP-free protocol for anonymously trading cards, using as basis a secure transferable e-cash protocol.

Playing (with) POST cards

Purpose This article illustrates through word, image and design the back-and-forth exchange characteristic of Project Oriented Semantic Trading (POST) Cards, a game-based professional learning ritual relevant to educators’ problems of practice. In describing the iterative designs and features of POST Cards, this article intentionally depicts alternative means of narrative and scholarship via imaginative, playful and visual (re)presentation. Design/methodology/approach Both POST Cards and this inquiry use a design-based process driven by theory about play, intended to improve education practice, and iteratively co-created with participants. As an annotated and dialogical worked example, this representation of game play moves beyond the monolithic medium of printed text. With the intention to provoke discussion about the content and configuration of inquiry, this article traces the literal and figurative tradeoffs associated with the development and play of POST Cards. Findings In surveying the design and enactment of POST Cards across two iterations, and a related Quote Cards mutation, three design principles are relevant to fostering greater playfulness in higher education: embrace the inevitability of tradeoffs, invite players to co-create new features and iterations, and create conditions whereby everyday rituals and social practices are transformed into improvisational and discursive play. Originality/value As an annotated narrative constructed in the form and spirit of POST Cards, this inquiry is notable for presenting an experimental form of multimodal literacy and also for revealing how higher education settings and practices may be designed as playgrounds upon which to render visionary, risky and expressive approaches to game-based collaboration and creative scholarship.

Using Artist Trading Cards as an Expressive Arts Intervention in Counseling

Artist trading cards (ATCs) are miniature works of art that are created within the dimensions of standardized trading cards or playing cards (2.5 inches × 3.5 inches). ATCs can be made with a variety of media—everything from pen and ink to oil paints, collages, mosaics, stamping, and altered photos. Using this compact art format as an expressive arts intervention in the therapeutic environment provides the counselor with most, if not all, of the same therapeutic benefits of larger art media (e.g., expressive release, creativity, artistic communication, symbolic self-expression, self-exploration, etc.). The unique benefit of the ATC format is that ATCs allow for traditional expressive arts interventions to be “better, faster, and cheaper” in many ways.

How much is it going to cost me to complete a collection of football trading cards?

AbstractTrading cards for various sports and a range of other subjects such as architecture, animals, hobbies, and war have been in existence since the late nineteenth century and still enjoy great popularity. Two of the most prominent examples are baseball cards in the U.S. and football cards in Europe. Three strategies for collecting European football trading cards were investigated for two different groups: either a single collector or two collectors joining forces. An activity is proposed in which students use a simulation to compute the factor by which the number of trading cards bought exceeds the number to be collected. This enables them to estimate the expected costs of completing a collection of trading cards. The overall expected costs vary considerably, depending on the strategy used. Savings for a team of two collectors as opposed to a single collector are indicated.

Personal Accounts: Stepping Into a Crosswalk

Personal Accounts: Stepping Into a Crosswalk

New Literacies and Multimediacy: The Immersive Universe of The 39 Clues

The 39 Clues (2009) is a multimedia series produced by Scholastic for readers 7–14 years old that includes printed texts released periodically; trading cards also published periodically in print and virtually; and a complex, intriguing, and entertaining website. To fully experience the multimedia series, the publishers expect that readers can read printed text, negotiate the website that blurs the boundaries between history and fiction, author, character, and reader, compete for prizes, and build online communities. The more able a reader is to use multiple media sources for her own purposes, the more likely she is to reach the end goal of solving the central mystery of the series and win cash prizes. We found that The 39 Clues is a unique instantiation of new literacies (e.g. Knobel and Lankshear, A New Literacies Sampler, 2007) in action.

Toys as tools of connection and disconnection: ethnographic perspectives on children’s consumption, inequality, and contemporary cultures of care

Allison's Pugh's, Longing and Belonging, and Anne Allison's, Millennial Monsters, are excellent contributions to a recently growing literature on children or youth, parents, and consumption (e.g., Anagnost 2004; Chin 2001; Clarke 2007; Cook 2004, 2008, 2009; Paugh and Izquierdo 2009; Zelizer 1994; see also Allison 1991). They sound a few important notes in concert as they unpack the driving forces and sociopolitical consequences of consumption for young people in the United States and beyond, and both ethnographies provide convincing evidence against the popular assumption that consumerism is a frivolous, self-indulgent activity devoid of social import or moral value. Yet they also offer distinct perspectives on just what kinds of sociality are at stake when children and parents purchase, display, or play with sought-after commodities like Gameboys and Pokemon trading cards. For this reason, the two monographs?each of them highly compelling in its own way?are even more productive and thought provoking when read as a pair, for the contrasting and complementary scopes of their ethnographic visions help illuminate the vast terrain of social contexts that ideally are engaged by critical scholarship on consumption and the cultures of childhood. Pugh's study is based in Oakland, California, "a fairly unequal city in a nation of unequal cities" (29). The research took place at three schools: a mostly African

Consumer discrimination in the NBA: An examination of the effect of race on the value of basketball trading cards

In this research we use sport trading cards to examine consumer discrimination in the NBA. Using a Tobit analysis, we test whether the race of a player affects the value (price) of his NBA trading card. We find that a player's race does not affect the value of NBA trading cards. We conclude that some forms of consumer discrimination are declining in the NBA.

Editor's Note: Correction to the International Year of Astronomy trading cards (series 1) included with the September issue.

Editor's Note: Correction to the International Year of Astronomy trading cards (series 1) included with the September issue.

The Migration of African-Americans to the Canadian Football League During the 1950s: An Escape from Racism?

It is the argument of this paper that the literature on mid-century racial discrimination in sport is incomplete in that it ignores the experiences of a small, but relatively significant, group of African-American football players who actually chose to leave their own country – and correspondingly leave the racially-charged environment of mid-twentieth-century USA – to head north to play professional football in the Canadian Football League (CFL). Beginning in 1946, a steady flow of African-Americans began to migrate to the CFL which, at the time, was a legitimate competitor league to the NFL. This paper attempts to test a perception seemingly held by some that, by moving to Canada, African-American football players were able to escape the racial injustices they often suffered in the US. This view appears to have its roots in the notion that Canada is a ‘gentler’, more tolerant society, without the divisive socio-political history that characterizes much of the race relations in the US. This paper tests these notions using a variety of empirical approaches. The results indicate that, while African-Americans were better represented in the CFL relative to the NFL, African-Americans still faced some level of entry discrimination in the CFL. In particular, African-American players in the CFL outperformed their white counterparts on numerous performance dimensions, indicating the overall talent level in the CFL could have been further improved by employing an even greater number of African-Americans. Additionally, the paper finds that those CFL teams that employed the highest percentage of African-Americans were those teams that had the most on-field success. Finally, the paper analyses prices of player trading cards from that era, and finds that cards of African-Americans were undervalued, relative to white CFL players of equal talent.

Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan: You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer

This lesson plan can be used with elementary students to integrate reading, social studies, and language arts. You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer is a humorous, yet accurate, account of the beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement. Students learn to make personal connections to women of today by comparing and contrasting past and present roles as well as predicting future roles. The needs of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners are addressed through hands-on activities and the use of technology, and primary sources are used to teach content. Students read other trade books on the lives of various women and make trading cards illustrating important contributions they made to history. Higher-order thinking questions are an integrative part of this lesson.

Natural born celebrities: serial killers in American culture

Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Over the past thirty years, serial killers have become iconic figures in America, the subject of made-for-TV movies and mass-market paperbacks alike. But why do we find such luridly transgressive and horrific individuals so fascinating? What compels us to look more closely at these figures when we really want to look away? Natural Born Celebrities considers how serial killers have become lionized in American culture and explores the consequences of their fame. David Schmid provides a historical account of how serial killers became famous and how that fame has been used in popular media and the corridors of the FBI alike. Ranging from H. H. Holmes, whose killing spree during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair inspired The Devil in the White City, right up to Aileen Wuornos, the lesbian prostitute whose vicious murder of seven men would serve as the basis for the hit film Monster, Schmid unveils a new understanding of serial killers by emphasizing both the social dimensions of their crimes and their susceptibility to multiple interpretations and uses. He also explores why serial killers have become endemic in popular culture, from their depiction in The Silence of the Lambs and The X-Files to their becoming the stuff of trading cards and even Web sites where you can buy their hair and nail clippings. Bringing his fascinating history right up to the present, Schmid ultimately argues that America needs the perversely familiar figure of the serial killer now more than ever to manage the fear posed by Osama bin Laden since September 11. This is a persuasively argued, meticulously researched, and compelling examination of the media phenomenon of the 'celebrity criminal' in American culture. It is highly readable as well. Joyce Carol Oates

Field experiments on the effects of reserve prices in auctions: more Magic on the Internet

I present experimental evidence on the effects of minimum bids in first‐price, sealed‐bid auctions. The auction experiments manipulated the minimum bids in a preexisting market on the Internet for collectible trading cards from the game Magic: the Gathering. I examine a number of outcomes, including the number of participating bidders, the probability of sale, the levels of individual bids, and the auctioneer's revenues. The benchmark theoretical model is one with symmetric, risk‐neutral bidders with independent private values. The results verify a number of the predictions concerning equilibrium bidding. Many bidders behave strategically, anticipating the effects of the reserve price on others' bids.

Von Trinkflaschen, Bands, Postern und Lesezeichen. Ein Streifzug durch eine private Sammlung von Librariana

Even if libraries themselves have a history of several millennia, librarianship as a full-fledged profession is far younger. Maybe a reason for librarians dealing so intensively with their profession, their occupational image, their perception by others and their portrayal in fiction and motion pictures? A collector of librariana, having dealt for years with librarians’ occupational images (part job-related, but mainly out of personal interest), invites to a foray through her private collection meeting fictional librarians, library cartoons, librarian trading cards, bottles and bookmarks as part of a “library culture”.

De Tolkien à « Yu-Gi-Oh »

Beginning with Tolkien and ending with Yu-Gi-Oh, this article traces some key themes in the development of the popular culture of children and adolescents. This culture is characterized today by the diversity and interpénétration of media and the growing importance of trading cards, role playing games, and video games. The work of Tolkien has contributed significantly to the richness and the structure of this multi-media world of play and games.

The Cardstock Chase, Trading Cards: A Legal Lottery?

The Cardstock Chase, Trading Cards: A Legal Lottery?

The Cardstock Chase, Trading Cards: A Legal Lottery?

The Cardstock Chase, Trading Cards: A Legal Lottery?