I am conducting my Ph.D. dissertation research on individuals that use digital games as a tool for learning purposes. I am looking for potential subjects who use games in an instructional capacity, and are willing to participate in a research study.
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Archive for January 2011
The deadline for submissions to the CHI 2011 Child Computer Interaction: 2nd Workshop on UI Technologies an their Impact on Educational Pedagogyread more
Ortega Says He Will Respect Any International Court Decision – Insidecostarica.com '"We will wait to see what the Court says. We have always been respectful of what the court orders and we will be respectful of their decision", said Ortega … Continue reading →
[...] information science, informatics, user centered design, user experience design, etc. (the #alt-ac crowd – as it has come to be [...]
n this month’s Wired, the “other Chris Anderson” (the one who runs TED, not the one who runs Wired), has a really interesting article on “Crowd Accelerated Innovation” and how it can change the world: See WIRED, Jan 2011
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“The Illusion of Diversity: Visualizing Ownership in the Soft Drink Industry” [msu.edu] consists of an elaborate cluster diagram of all the soft drink brands and varieties found in the refrigerator cases of about 100 Michigan retailers, along with the…
In memory of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti one year ago on January 12, 2010, the New York Times shows aerial photos of Port-au-Prince from GeoEye and Google in this interactive. See views form before the earthquake, a few days after, and now. Above is a current view of the Pétionville tent city, a [...]
Cartographer Andy Woodruff documents all the places he goes, resulting in the pretty map above. I have collected all my travels within the immediate local area (Boston) into a series of maps categorized by the mode of transportation for each trip. These are not GPS tracks; I remain low-tech and manually record each trip on [...]
However, as I began to investigate readerly identity while writing the introduction to my senior thesis, I realized that while Woolf’s Judith Shakespeare gave female writers an inheritance, she did not affirm female readers. Judith Shakespeare became a…
I’ve said a few controversial things over the course of my career, and it seems to me that if you are so honored as to have other people talking about what you said, you should probably sit back and let people respond without trying to defend yourself against every countercharge. But I’m worried that my [...]
Happy New Year and I know I’ve been silent but I’ve been busy. But no teaching this semester (YAY!) so maybe you’ll see more posts.At any rate, I’m really late to the table, but here are my comments about this past year’s NIPS. Before we ge…
I really enjoyed being on the Kojo Nnamdi Show today talking about digital humanities for an hour with Kojo, the NEH‘s Brett Bobley, and UVA‘s Bill Ferster. Kojo’s show is produced at Washington’s NPR station, WAMU, and syndicated nationally. It’s also available as an audio stream and a podcast. Having done podcasts for four years [...]
New gadgets, from Web-connected TVs, to smartphones, to Fax machines, always seem to start expensive and then decrease in price a few months later. We all know this. But by how much? Alicia Parlapiano of The Washington Post takes a look in this interactive. It shows units sold by year for different gadgets. Bubble size [...]
Fact is not always clear cut. Sometimes fact is driven by opinion. People might have conflicting points of view or maybe the truth is simply unknown. We can see this via Wikipedia, where anyone can edit and create documents. Sometimes people propose that articles should be taken down, and if the proposal is approved, people [...]
Librarians and libraries are increasingly on the frontlines of improving digital literacy as well as using the latest digital tools to confront some old-fashioned attempts at censorship.
