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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Digital Media - New Learners of the 21st Century
PBS aired this program back in February this year. It is almost an hour long and features many of the big names in 21st century learning, including James PaulKatie...
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Kudos to the New RCMP Commissioner
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, our federal police force, recently had its 23rd commissioner formally installed. There have been problems with the previousRCMP...
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About to Get Nutty Around Here
Things are about to get really nutty, and I expect I won't be able to post to the blog too much in the next 6-8 weeks (though I will still try to get some content...
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Who Knew Science and Dance Could Be So Closely Related?
So often we think of the arts and science as opposites. Many who are talented in one feel hopelessly lost in the other. But the two are more related than it might...
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Gamifying College
Gamification is certainly a hot topic these days. Jesse Schell opened Pandora's Box with his Visions of the Gamepocalypse talk. Sebastian Deterding discussedpromises...
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Event Idea: The Truth About Women in Science and Engineering
I recently came up with what I thought was interesting event idea. Our Dean of Engineering had expressed some interest in CU-WISE coming up with an idea for aThe...
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She Topped All the Men in Math and Kept Her Life in Balance
In an age where to be female was to be weak, there was one woman who would finally show the world that the fairer sex could beat the very best men academically,...
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Enjoying Grace Hopper 2011 From Afar
I've attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) every year since 2008, gradually increasing my participation from blogging to being on aaggregated...
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Code Blocked
I love coding. Once I get started, I get lost in the groove very easily. I love thinking about the best way to organize objects and design my UI. It feels good...
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Two Months Before Mommyhood
It's hard to believe that our baby's due date is less than 8 weeks away. It's even harder to believe I've written so little about it here! What with trying to...
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Course Blogs vs Wikis
If you're a professor or TA for a course and want to use online technology for the betterment of your students, which is superior: a course wiki or a course blog...
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Help Wanted: Examples of Nonlinear Stories and Less Successful AR Projects
I'm working on two projects where I need to come up with as long a list of examples as I can. I've got some in mind, but what better way to make sure I don't miss...
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Computer Science is Everywhere! (Even Photography)
Last week I did a couple of workshops at the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology for National Science and Technology Week. I managed to improve the usual...
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What if you want a PhD but don't plan to do research after?
I was thinking the other day about the different reasons a person might want to get a PhD, and I wondered if those who weren't necessarily intending to be researchers...
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'Publish or Perish' Should Perish
I hate the 'publish or perish' mantra of academia. I really do. To me, it takes the focus away from doing great work and waiting until it's truly ready for public...
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Research Plan: The Role of Story in Educational Games
I've (finally!) been working on a concrete thesis research plan and wanted to share a general idea of what I'm intending to do. The short version is that I want...
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Ada Lovelace Day: Natalia
I participate in Ada Lovelace Day every year by blogging about my tech heroines. This year, I had a really hard time deciding who to honour because there are so...
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Notes on 'Experiencing Stories with/in Digital Games' Colloquium
You've probably heard it before: we've got a long way to go in finding artful ways to meld great storytelling with the traditional mechanics of digital games. Experiencing...
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Vulnerability in Teaching
The status quo in university lecturing is comfortable. You capture what you know on a set of slides (often using many words - kind of a brain dump, really), and...
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