I’ve embedded my slides for my AERA presentation, “Can You Hear Me Now?: Student Voice in the Battle For Cell Phone Use in a Less Than Receptive School” below. I’ve reused some of these slides for various presentations at this point and I feel ready to retire most of this for something newer on the [...]
Actual updates will be here shortly. In the meantime, the Black Cloud is featured on the Buckminster Fuller Challenge site today. Please check it out. (Aclima is shortlisted as a semi-finalist for the BFI Challenge Award this year. The winner will be announced in June.)
I wanted to share a couple of recent videos that I’ve been rewatching. First, while I don’t agree with all of Jane McGonigal’s arguments, I’m genuinely excited by her recent TED talk. At this point, I am strongly aligned with the idea of connecting game play to real world change. You could do a lot [...]
Overall, I can say I was both impressed and pleased with the way the Digital Media and Learning Conference went. It was certainly one of the more exciting conferences I’ve dragged myself to in the past few years. I think the interdisciplinary nature of DML made for much richer conversations than the kinds I find [...]
I’ll have some reflections on the DML conference later on. For now, I wanted to share the slides from our presentation below. Also, if you are interested, Sheryl Grant live-blogged our session. You can read a great overview here. Meanwhile, data on air quality at the conference has been collected over the past two days [...]
I’m in the process of slowly weaving various conferences into my teaching/studying/dog-walking schedule. This Friday I’ll be participating in the Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Diego. I’m speaking as part of a session titled “Orality, Pedagogy, and New Media: How Children Develop Self-Awareness and Collective Consciousness.” I’m pasting the info below. Registration is [...]
A paper I co-authored (and partially adapted from my work in a course about Dewey and democracy) was presented at the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Multimedia Conference in Beijing last week. Though you (or your institution) will need a subscription to download it, the abstract (below) and the list of citations (linked) should give [...]
This Thursday, Mario Galindo (teaching English at West Adams) and I will be talking about technology use in the classroom. I’ll be focusing on the Black Cloud as an example of technology utilization in class settings. I realize I’ve already spoken about the Black Cloud all over the place, but I think this will be [...]
Had a fun time introducing Cloudy McPufferson to Google this week. Cloudy (With Google guest badge) peeks behind a cactus at Building 42. And catching up from last week, this is my new favorite Chicago-related picture:
Sheryl Grant wrote a useful overview of what transpired during Black Cloud Game 1.0. Read it here. While you’re at it, you can check out video from the Humanities 2.o MLA Conference Panel over here. Not much of an update, I realize. I hope to write about this in the next day or so. (For [...]