Using Social Media Tools to Connect Teacher Candidates to ELL Classrooms
Author note: This post is an early draft of a manuscript co-authored by Todd Edwards, Suzanne Harper, Nick Shay, and Jennifer Edwards. I. Introduction According to the National Education Association...
View ArticleSocial Impact and the Rhetoric of Gameplay
Much of my research is centered on the rhetoric of gameplay. At its simplest, the rhetoric of gameplay is about understanding that anything we do in a game has a specific argument about what is...
View ArticleAIMS Hosts Web Viewing Party for Health Datapalooza
Miami University’s Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies invites all to join the “watch pit” for the plenary session of 2011′s Health Datapalooza on June 9th from 8am – 12:00pm EST. Join...
View ArticleNow Taking Applications for AIMS Bay Area Digital Innovation Center
[Also see the new micro-site: AIMS Digital Innovation Center] This has been a long time coming, indeed. In many ways, AIMS has been moving towards the creation of this Center for nearly a decade. I...
View Article“Why is Miami in Lincoln (England)?”
The numbers are 12-4-2-4. No, this is not a new football (soccer) formation that I discovered during our visit to the UK. Twelve (12) Miami undergraduate students are spending 4 weeks working on 2...
View ArticleFostering student writing with Open Journal Systems
Introduction For the past three years, I’ve served as co-editor of the Ohio Journal of School Mathematics. Our main audience is practicing classroom teachers and university faculty interested in the...
View ArticleInteractive Objects
A sample of student work from Fall 2011, Interactive Objects, Prof Jacob Tonski.
View ArticleTech Improvements and New Opportunities at CRUX
It’s been two and half years since we announced the opening of the Center for Research in User Experience (CRUX). Our capabilities have significantly grown in that time and we wanted to share with you...
View ArticleUsing Alternate Reality Gaming in the Classroom
Many of you might be wondering about recent appearances of the rarely seen superhero, Bagel Boy. Or, perhaps, you recently heard that the ghost of Wilson Hall escaped and was demanding cookies? Or...
View ArticleMathematics and Minecraft
Introduction As a faculty member in the Department of Teacher Education, my day job centers around projects that help prepare teacher candidates to work as teachers in mathematics classrooms in grades...
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