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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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Technology and How It Is Evolving Storytelling in Our Entertainment Experiences / GHC14
What luck! An invited technical speaker at GHC wants to talk about storytelling and games! As Bonnie Ross' abstract states, "stories spill into every aspect and...
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Games to Get Girls Interested in Programming, and Animation for Music and Dance Games / GHC14
I started my last morning of GHC with two presentations in the GFX track, which covers games and graphics. I enjoyed both talks, though the first is particularly...
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The basics of contributing to open source with GitHub / GHC14
My first session after the plenary opener was about how to use GitHub, presented by John Britton. I was interested in getting some better insight into effective...
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C++ and Java Together in CS2: Will it Be Great or a Disaster?
I've been trying something a little bit different for our CS2 class this semester. The course typically covers object-oriented programming in Java along with topics...
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How Beyond the Code Attendees Found Their Spark with Anita's Quilt
Recently, Shopify put on a super cool conference called Beyond the Code. Hosted at the Ottawa Convention Centre, the event's main goal was to highlight the role...
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Cool New Science Show for Kids on TVO
I recently checked out the pilot episode for a new science show that premiered on TVO called Annedroids. Although I found one of the characters overly annoying...
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Be a GHC Community Volunteer and Change Your Life
You should sign up to be a volunteer community note-taker or blogger by our new deadline of September 8. It could change your life! Seriously!Blue Jelly Social...
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This Year's Design for 'Computers for Arts and Social Science Students'
I've been working on our non-majors computing course for a while now. Last year was the first time I got to try it with a large group (440 students!), and also...
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Gram's House Project Team Receives Two NSF Pathways Grants!
Gram's House is a research project I started several years ago with a prototype originally designed for Microsoft's Imagine Cup competition. Since then, a core...
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How Small Changes in a Game's Story Can Make a Huge Difference
I recently wrote to the author of a book I love, Think Like a Programmer. I had wanted to ask some questions related to using the book for one of our first year...
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Google's Report on Women in Computer Science, and What it Means for Me
A couple of months ago, Google came out with a report called Women Who Choose Computer Science — What Really Matters. It details a study Google conducted "toGram's...
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Reflections on 'Learn to Program With Python'
This past June, I designed and taught an introductory programming course through Girl Develop It! Ottawa called Learn to Program With Python. It was a two-part...
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GLS10 / Let’s Prototype: Women at the Intersection of Learning, Games, & Design
The tenth annual Games, Learning and Society Conference, held this past June in Madison, WI, featured a panel on women in gaming. Moderated by games-journalist...
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GLS10 Keynote Scot Osterweil: It's Not About the Game
When I attended the 2014 Games, Learning and Society Conference (GLS10) in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin, I did not expect to engage much with the topic of stories...
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Mini-Course 2014: Survey Results
After a one-year hiatus, I ran my all-girls mini-course on computer science and games again this past May. Along with a picture of my lovely class, I wanted to...
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Go Code Girl 2014: Impact Survey Results
This year's Go Code Girl event, which focused on programming with Python and the Raspberry Pi, was a great success. The impact surveys the girls filled in at the...
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Python and Pi Helped Make Go Code Girl 2014 A Great Success
On the last two Saturdays of March, a group of high school girls came to both Carleton University and the University of Ottawa to learn about computer science and...
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Reflections on My First Year of Teaching
I did it. I survived my first year of teaching. Exams are marked, and grades are submitted. And while I still have students concerned about their results toimage...
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My FDG 2014 Cruise Ship Conference Experience
You may recall that I was going to a conference on a cruise ship in April. Well, I'm back from Foundations of Digital Games 2014 and am happy to report that Iall...
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