Smaller Class Sizes Can Matter

Weird News My Introduction to Computers for Arts and Social Sciences course usually has several hundred students when taught in the fall and winter (when I'm not teaching), but under 100 when I teach in the summer.

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Demoing Gram's House at Games for Change Festival 2011

Weird News I'm very excited to announce that I'll be demoing Gram's House at this year's Games for Change Festival.

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What I'm Asking My Arts and Social Sciences Students to Know

Weird News There are just two more days of class left for my Introduction to Computers for Arts and Social Sciences course.

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Research Plan: The Role of Story in Educational Games

Weird News 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.

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'Publish or Perish' Should Perish

Weird News I hate the 'publish or perish' mantra of academia.

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What if you want a PhD but don't plan to do research after?

Weird News 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 when they were done would be valued as highly during their grad school years as those who did.

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