Published Work
“Developing an Interactive Social Media Based Learning Environment”
Published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 8, 2011
“Navigating Informational Challenges”
Co-Author with Joseph Chao and Kevin Parker
The interactive social media based learning environment is a software system that provides a social media classroom experience for interactive learning. Students log in with a mobile device, such as an iPad or a laptop, and participate in a classroom environment in which they can view lecture slides, “chat” on-line with other users during the lecture, tweet to their followers, post items to their Facebook page, and collaborate with each other on topics. Within the learning environment, the student may also ask, rate, and answer questions on-line. The instructor has the capability of synchronizing lecture slides on the student’s mobile devices as well as administering quizzes throughout the lecture and displaying visual results for the quizzes.
State of Play
Published by Integrative Teaching International
Co-Editor with Stacy Isenbarger and author of the assignment:
Video Game
State of Play presents practical, innovative assignments that prepare students to learn the technical skills that ground study in art and design by introducing habits of mind that are the foundation for creative inquiry. It is the first Integrative Teaching International publication that developed from ITT’s ThinkTank4 held at the University of Georgia in June 2009.
Play is an organized activity that is disguised as something that is fun and/or competitive. The form of play can be very structured (with rules and deep strategies, as in chess) or more loosely defi ned and open-ended (as
in playing with blocks). In a state of play, teaching and learning flow naturally, opening up opportunities for exploration and experimentation by every person in the room. Play is something students understand.Anthony Fontana, State of Play Co-Editor
Future Forward Vol. 1, No. 1
Published by Integrative Teaching International
Collaborative Assistant Editor and Co-Author of the article:
Design as Social Practice : Laying the Foundation
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Cultural, political, technological and ecological shifts challenge every member of the human family. As our planet shrinks, fl attens, stresses and melds, it becomes exponentially more imperative that 21st century designers look beyond their geographical and cultural borders to communicate responsibly and effectively to and through diverse communities. What is the expanding role of design in our age of transformation? How can foundational coursework prepare design students for personal passage into responsible action as professionals and as global citizens?
FATE in Review, Volume 30
Published by FATE: Foundations in Art, Theory and Education
Author of the article:
The Multichronic Classroom: Creating an Engaging Environment for All Students
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…the culture of our classrooms and our pedagogy is changing with the methods and tools we use for communication and content transfer. Behaviors that in the past may have seemed rude or counter-cultural, such as texting during a lecture, are more explainable in light of the terms polychronic and monochronic, and perhaps could be more productive given the right guidance. The mentality that mobile phones and computers be shut off during a class period only serves to cut the students off from that which is most valuable in their education: information. It is with this idea at heart that the creation of a multichronic classroom may become a goal for any educator, bridging a “Digital Divide” for the benefit of the student’s education.
iDEAS07: Beyond Boundaries
Exhibition Catalog Published by International Digital Media Arts
