I caught a ride to Stanford yesterday to discuss eportfolios with Dr. Helen Chen. We didn’t get a chance to talk at the recent Association for Authentic, Experiential and...

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago Took a look around, see which way the wind blow Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows Are you...

After hundreds of hours of research (online and otherwise), travelling to the University of Victoria, British Columbia, for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (twice!), taking the “Digital Pedagogy and Praxis”...

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Digital Story made from blog post “On M. Macron, Macarons, Macaroons, Macaroni, Maccaroni, the Macaronies, and Drumpf” using Lumen5.

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I recently spent an entire day at this wonderfully international digital conference. I can highly recommend the Kule Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Alberta, Canada, annual “Around...

Philippe Wojazer/Reuters After Emmanuel Macron won the French election by a margin of two to one over Marine Le Pen, I wondered what the French word macron could mean. I...

This last portion of class has helped me to better synthesize how informal and formal learning spaces interact with one another. I think this was facilitated in particular when I reflected upon my affinity space interactions in the Unity community forums for the affinity space presentation project. The Unity community forums were certainly an informal […]

The US House of Representatives finally passed AHCA 2017. Now it has to be scored by the Congressional Budget Office (usually done before the vote), be passed by the US...

  It took 100 days but President Trump finally spoke a truth. I don’t think he intended to be honest, so I made a 1 minute video to commemorate this milestone...

UMW Honors Program Web Application 1)What was the project assignment? The project assignment was to utilize a Requirements Specification created by a different team to plan, schedule, and implement a client project by working together with an assigned team. The team was assigned to work together during the entire second half of the semester. We were …

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Designing Wireframes – Human Computer Interaction 1)What was the project assignment? The assignment was to create a HTI(Hierarchical Task Inventory) and a set of wireframes for the UMW Computer Science Department website redesign. 2)What did you learn from the project? I learned how about Hierarchical Task Inventories and their role in UX Design. I also learned …

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SQL Project: PostgreSQL and SocketIO –  CPSC 350 Spring 2016 1)What was the project assignment? The SQL Project was intended to serve as the final project for Databases 350. It was a group or individual project that was an introduction to working in sprints to complete a project. The database was PostgreSQL and after the third sprint was required …

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Hi everyone! I have completed my affinity space project for INTE 5320. What an amazing experience! I put together a presentation on participating in an affinity space–the Unity Community Forums–using Camtasia Studio 9 (a free trial from TechSmith), and my video includes interactive elements that wouldn’t work on YouTube, so the video is available on […]

My second experience with a Twitter chat went better than first—even though it took place only a few minutes after the first ended! This Twitter chat was based around the hashtag #XPLAP (which stands for Explore Like a Pirate, and comes from the title of a book about game-based learning written by Michael Matera, who […]

The very first Twitter chat I ever even saw was the Twitter chat for #edtechbridge. I ran across it while planning to participate in a different Twitter chat for my INTE 5320 class (that second Twitter chat will be the subject of my second of these posts reviewing Twitter chats), and because it was related […]

I read the article “Can the professor come out and play? Establishing critical gaming group for faculty” by Trent Hergenrader. The article is a companion piece of sorts to one I’d read previously (they occur at the same university), and this article focuses on the author’s proposed plan to create a self-sustaining critical gaming group […]

My thoughts on the Unity user community forums have deepened since my last post. I’ve been doing a great deal of reflection upon my observations and interactions throughout the space, and I ultimately feel a strongly positive-leaning attitude toward it. What’s really started to become clear to me is just how many traits of a […]

These last few weeks, I’ve been playing the excellent Mass Effect: Andromeda. I unabashedly loved the other games in the Mass Effect series, and I’ve been looking forward to this game for almost five years now. My opinion heading into the game is probably already quite apparent. Andromeda is a 3rd person science fiction RPG […]

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