Welcome to
 Mink Hollow Enterprises
 Games, Media, Farm & Kennel





Blacksun March 31 2012


Mink Hollow Media

We design, develop, and assess new media objects and user experience.

We have expertise in all forms of new media, but our particular focus is in Serious Games and e-learning. We also do 16 track audio recording, especially for games and animation, as well as audio analysis and sound synthesis.



Jim Parker is a full professor of Art (and formerly Computer Science) at the University of Calgary, and a successful author. He has performed and published research in programming languages, computer simulation, computer vision, graphics, computer audio, biometrics, and most recently computer game technology.
Webmail for Mink Hollow (personal use)
Katrin Becker holds a PhD in Educational Technology from the University of Calgary, where (until July 2006) she was also a Senior Instructor in the Computer Science Department. She's been doing doing eLearning applications since 1978 and is an expert in the design and analysis of computer games for teaching and learning.










is a purebred waterfowl farm and rabbitry. Our specialty is our world famous 'Ducks in the Classroom' project which helps teachers and their students incubate and hatch duck eggs at school. Many get to watch the babies hatch before their very eyes. We breed and raise Khaki Campbell, Chinook Ancona (our own variety), and Silver Appleyard ducks. 
We also breed purebred Rex rabbits under the "Mink Hollow" name.
MinkHollow (Perm.) Registered Rottweilers has been a breeder of purebred Rottweilers since 1985. We don't breed dogs much any more because it is very hard to find good homes, and perhaps even harder to find good dogs! Still, we are registered with the Canadian Kennel Club.



Some of our Other Affiliations:

Serious Games Canada concerns itself with the use of Computer/Video games for non-entertainment purposes. This would normally include, but is not limited to:

  • Education (K-12, post-secondary)
  • Training (corporate, military, sports)
  • Health (overlap with above, plus clinical games)
  • Advertising (product placement, general message games)
  • Communications (E.G. religious, political messages)
  • Social & Cultural (E.G. language and culture preservation)
  • Assistance with Impairments (working with hearing, vision deficits)
  • Disadvantaged groups (assistance for poorer countries, underrepresented societal groups)








Are all Universities places where free thought is encouraged?
The following links go to two pages that K.Becker was forced to remove from her University of Calgary web site on February 4, 2005. She was allowed to put them back in May 2005, but it was made clear that it was *pending* further investigation.
Have a look and decide for yourself. Should they have been banned? Should a university administrator have the power to unilaterally decide what faculty can and can not post on their web pages? The University of Calgary's Network Policy, and the University's OFFICIAL position on Freedom of Expression, Academic Freedom and Freedom of Inquiry can be found below:
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY COMPUTING AND NETWORKS POLICY http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/policy
University of Calgary Rights, Responsibilities, Services and Resources http://www.ucalgary.ca/discrimination/rightsresponsibilities/
CAUT - Canadian Association of University Teachers http://www.caut.ca/
On Academic Freedom: http://www.caut.ca/en/issues/academicfreedom/default.asp
SAFS - Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship http://www.safs.ca/about.html