It seems like such a long time ago, but it wasn’t much more than a year ago when Rich Moran, a Miami alum and advisor for AIMS, planted the seed with Peg and I. He said “you know – you can bring us folks from the Bay Area to Oxford all you want, but students [...]
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Reflections on AIMS Silicon Valley: Year One
Friday, April 27th, 2012Posted in AIMS News, Curriculum, Design Thinking, Digital Art & Design, Innovation, Interactive Marketing, Mobile Computing, Social Networks | No Comments »
Participate, UT Knoxville
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012This spring Miami design professor Helen Armstrong traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee, to lead a participatory design workshop with University of Tennessee juniors.
The assignment: Find 20 people who have something unusual in common. Construct a flexible identity and supporting system through which the 20 users, and others like them, can coalesce as a community. The original [...]
Tags: Graphic Design, Helen Armstrong, Knoxville, Knoxville Tennessee, Miami, Participatory Design, Scar, social network, Tennessee, University of Tennessee
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Social Business Readiness 101
Monday, September 26th, 2011Altimeter Group recently released an eye-opening report detailing the lack of social business readiness characteristic of the vast majority of organizations. The consequences are huge: more than 75% social media crises the researchers analyzed could have been diminished or averted if companies had invested in social business requirements. Lead author of the report, Jeremiah Owyang, chronicles [...]
Tags: Altimeter Group, Jeremiah Owyang, Social business, Social Media
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On Hashtags
Monday, April 18th, 2011I teach IMS211, our introductory Game Studies course. A few weeks ago, we had a seminar discussion on gaming communities and how social media such as Twitter have facilitated easier interaction between game players/fans and game developers. During discussion, I took out my phone and tweeted the following: “Hey, if you work in games, can [...]
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Using Social Media Tools to Connect Teacher Candidates to ELL Classrooms
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011Author 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 (NEA), approximately 5 million English language learners (ELLs) are currently enrolled in K-12 classrooms in the United States. In the past 15 years, the number of [...]
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Is the Internet a public space?
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011It was, it still is, but will it continue to be? Especially given the ongoing threat to “net neutrality” by telecommunications firms attempting to exert greater commercial control over the Internet and by the FCC, who, depending on your point of view, is either caving in to the desires of the telecommunications industry (Internet service [...]
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Small Talk
Sunday, December 5th, 2010A recent article in Ad Age explores consumer responses to banal Twitter and Facebook posts sent on behalf of brands. They’re not just banal, they are very characteristic of simple back-and-forth dialogue between friends. Something like:
Brand: “Have a good Thanksgiving.”
Consumer: “Yeah, you too.”
To the astonishment of many, myself included, consumers are very willing to participate [...]
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Parody and Insight
Sunday, November 14th, 2010I recently was reading a tweet from AIMS’ Sean Duncan about Bradley’s Johnson’s “Lame Castle” game and have been reflecting on the power of parody. Moreover, I have been struck by a series of events and products in recent times that have all realized a concept borne in parody and seen it through. Here is [...]
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Mobile Learning – Are we ready?
Sunday, September 19th, 2010Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, who has banned the use of cellphones while driving in Ontario, and their use in his own cabinet meetings, has recently gone on record saying that he believes that the ban on cellphones in the classroom should be lifted [1]. In his statement, McGuinty says:
“There’s a right way and a wrong [...]
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The Role of Technology and Social Media in Mathematics Teaching and Learning
Monday, September 13th, 2010Technology has an important role to play in helping teachers – particularly those new to the profession – deal with the many challenges they face on a daily basis. Social media, in particular, can help alleviate feelings of isolation common among classroom teachers. In this post, I share an example assignment that pre-service mathematics teachers complete in the course Mathematics: History and Technology (EDT 265) at Miami University that acquaints them with inexpensive teaching and communication tools that will serve them well as practicing teachers.
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