Yep, we’re social
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Social Media and College Admissions
There are some interesting stats here. For example, 70% of colleges say the Facebook profiles of applicants are a medium or high priority in the admissions process. Graphic courtesy of Schools.com
Courtesy of: Schools.com
Social Bookmarking – Diigo or Zotero
Evergreen’s Academic Computing currently supports the use of Zotero for web-based bibliographic citation management. Although this tool’s focus is not social bookmarking, it does have group features like discussion forums and access to shared bookmarks and notes. How we currently … Continue reading →
Affect and the machine gaze
In class yesterday, one of our grad students sparked a discussion of affect as it relates to video games. One point that we didn’t get to explore is that from a marketing perspective, the video game industry is deeply interested in affect (as is any business that involves selling something in just unimaginable quantities). For […]
Game Studies class starting today
I’m happy to write that the Game Studies class that I’m co-teaching (with my excellent and inestimable colleagues Carol Stabile and Annie Zeidman-Karpinski) is meeting for the first time today. This class is a bit of an experiment. It is (to my knowledge) the first Game Studies class to be taught at the University of […]
Call Me A Duck (On The Rocks)
Take a look at the UO’s new admissions recruitment video, featuring a capella superstars, On The Rocks: UO locations seen in the video include Walton Complex (Housing), Lillis Business Complex, Knight Library, Johnson Hall, Hayward Field, Gerlinger Hall, Jordan Schnitzer Museum … Continue reading →
23 Educational Roles (from Stephen Downes)
Who fills these roles your campus? How many are you filling yourself?
The Role of the Educator in a PLE World
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On Mondloch’s Screens
I just finished reading UO colleague Kate Mondloch’s excellent new book, Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010, from the thoroughly excellent Electronic Mediations series); and while I’m not ready to thoroughly review it, I do want to take a moment to log a few brief thoughts. It is clear within the […]
Communicative Manipulation
I was thumbing through Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life1 the other day, thinking about games as dialogic actors in a scheme of mediated interpersonal communication; thinking about about Super Meat Boy and the critical response to it (the grounded, the hyperbolic, the in-between); thinking about Abbot’s upcoming class; thinking about my own […]