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: Just landed in Portland for #ncph third visit to the west coast in so many months.
- tjowens: thoroughly enjoyed "Trailer For Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever " http://bit.ly/aXw3nZ
- tjowens: Just posted some preliminary results from my survey of the RPG Maker Community http://bit.ly/c6qhm5 (having a ton of fun with this project)
- tjowens: Becoming a fan http://becomeadfan.ytmnd.com/ It is always good to see YTMND deliver exactly what YTMND is supposed to deliver.
Conversation Piece For THATCamp
Saturday, May 31st, 2008This is just a quick post to get out a first pass at a rubric for assessing games for use in history classrooms for THATCamp. Click the image to see a bigger, more readable version.
Most approaches to evaluating games, or at least most of the approaches I have come across are not discipline specific, and [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Nature Study was the cutting edge approach in American science education. Educational scholars claimed students should “study nature, not books” and education took on a much more practical bent. Some scholars have noted that this approach to science education was much more gender inclusive, that nature study [...]
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