I am the community lead for the Zotero project at the Center for History and New Media and a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. I am interested in open source platforms for learning and research, games and learning, and the history of science education. Before coming to the CHNM I worked for the Games, Learning, and Society Conference.
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- tjowens: @samplereality Apparently every address I have been associated with does not contain enough information. How should that make me feel?
- tjowens: I just can't understand how each Pokemon can talk to eachother only using the syllables of their own names @clioweb
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Term Paper 2.0: Reinventing The College Essay Via Wikipidia
Friday, October 26th, 2007I just got out of a great session at Educause that I thought would add another wrinkle to earlier discussions of the value of Wikipedia. The two speakers Andreas Brockhaus and Martha Groom, had students in a environmental biology class write or significaltly edit Wikipedia articles in lue of a traditional essay assignment. (The full [...]
Keep Reading » 2Osama bin Laden For Kids
Monday, October 22nd, 2007It might surprise you to know that at least 10 children’s books about Osama bin Laden have been published in the last 6 years. I was intrigued, just what do publishers think children should learn about this contemporary villain? To start to try answering this question I took a look at two biographies of bin [...]
Keep Reading » 1Playing History:Hacked Screen Shot
Sunday, October 7th, 2007Here is a quick mock up of a individual games page for Playing History. (Click on the image to see it at its native resolution) Everything isn’t perfectly lined up but you get the picture.
Keep Reading » 2Playing History For An Audiance
Sunday, October 7th, 2007So far I am calling my video games resource for teachers “Playing History.” As I am imagining the resource there are four potential audiences, and each of the audiences would enter the picture at different stages, and each would have unique needs. K-12 History Teachers The primary audience is Teachers. As outlined in my use [...]
Keep Reading » 1Why fix something that isn’t broken? Wikipedia vs. Citizendium
Monday, October 1st, 2007I understand that the Wikipedia has its problems, but I consistently find it to be one of the most thorough and quickest way to get information, further I love how transparent that information. You can read the arguments about the content on the given page and evaluate its credibility. For the sake of argument, last [...]
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