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Disciplinarity Games for Impact Integrated Clusters Teaching

What is an “academic discpline”?

·January 11, 2024

Integrated Capstone (INCAP) classes at Plymouth State University are supposed to engage students in the development of an interdisciplinary signature project. To understand what "interdisciplinary" means, we first have to…

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Student Work in Media and Cultural Studies

·September 22, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Cluster Pedagogy Integrated Clusters Open Educational Resources Technology Writing

A ChatGPT Assignment

·August 2, 2023

When I last taught Media and Cultural Studies six years ago, students worked on an Open Education Resource (OER) for the class. I wrote about this experiment in our new…

Astrophotography Learning Teaching

Signal to Noise Ratio in Learning

·July 19, 2023

I think those of us who are educators would agree that, since the start of the pandemic, our students are more distracted than ever. In fact, I think most of…

Academia Games Scholarship

Memories: Online Games as Identity Performance Spaces

·May 15, 2023

A Facebook memory popped up that twelve years ago today, I submitted a chapter to a forthcoming video game book. I shared the memory and pointed out that despite a…

Astrophotography Learning

Choosing Learning Materials

·February 5, 2023

I started in astrophotography about 6 months ago. I have consulted a lot of different sources to learn all kinds of stuff during this time. One of the most interesting…

Astrophotography Learning Teaching Wonder

Experiencing Awe

·January 30, 2023

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event. Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF) is approaching Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. Astronomers discovered it in March 2022…

Astrophotography Learning Photography

Making an Astrophotograph

·December 28, 2022

Making an astrophotograph starts with equipment. For this image, I used a stock Canon 6D that I have had for years and a Canon 50mm f1.8 lens that I bought…

Astrophotography Learning Making Meaning Teaching

Obsession, Learning, and Teaching

·December 27, 2022

I didn't write a single blog post during the Fall semester. My blog post from the end of July gives a little bit of a hint about the reason. In…

Cluster Pedagogy Game Design Learning Ungrading

Ungrading and Learning

·December 21, 2022

I taught the introductory class, called Game Design Principles, for our new Game Design major this Fall. I think this first offering went pretty well although there are some things…

Cluster Pedagogy Learning Teaching

Astrophotography and Teaching

·July 29, 2022

I have been interested in photography for years. I have a good understanding of composition, the exposure triangle, depth of field, and many other photographic concepts as well as how…

Habit Formation Learning Teaching

Teaching, Learning, and Atomic Habits

·July 27, 2022

I wrote earlier this year about using the book Atomic Habits by James Clear to think about how to help students develop good academic habits. This summer, group of faculty…

Feminism Reading

Biographies of Women

·July 21, 2022

About 15 months ago, I wrote a blog post about my pandemic project of listening to biographies of creative women. I have continued listening to biographies (and memoirs in some…

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Photo Sharing Work Flow

·June 21, 2022

Since April 2, 2019, I have been taking and posting a #DailyPhoto. This project started when my friend Sally asked if anyone wanted to join her in a #100DayProject where…

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Being Hannah Gadsby: Some Thoughts on Disciplinarity

·April 14, 2022

I recently rewatched Hannah Gadsby's two Netflix specials, Nanette and Douglas. I've linked here to the trailers for each of these specials but the trailers don't hint at the brilliance…

Art Building Community Games

Why Wordle Matters

·March 10, 2022

I'm sure you've heard of Wordle, the new word game that has taken the Internet by storm in the last couple of months. I'm always curious about why some games…

Bullet Journal Habit Formation

My Bullet Journal Experience

·February 7, 2022

In my last blog post, I mentioned that I recently started using a bullet journal. I came across the idea when I was doing research about habit formation. There are…

Habit Formation Habits of Mind Teaching

Developing Academic Habits

·February 6, 2022

Last semester, I had a student who told me that he had been the kind of student in high school who just sort of skated through his classes, not taking…

Creating Games Creativity Open Educational Resources

Cultivating Creativity

·January 9, 2022

I wrote two new chapters, Creative Thought in PSU's Gen Ed Program and Cultivating Creativity, for my Creating Games OER. I think there are a lot of lessons for me…

Information Literacy Innovative Curriculum Tackling a Wicked Problem

Info-Environmentalism

·December 28, 2021

Now that the Fall 2021 semester has ended, I have been thinking a lot about how my section of Tackling a Wicked Problem (TWP) went. My section was focused on…