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.
Design Rationale: Playing History
Monday, April 6th, 2009This week in Clio Wired: Creating History With New Media each of my classmatees has been diligently working on composing a design rationale for each of our projects. Below is my rationalization. You can also view it as this PDF.
Design Rationale Playing History
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Re-mixing The Tech Tree: Build Your Own History Of Science
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009A few weeks back Rob Macdougall posted a great essay about using the game Civilization’s approach to the history of science and technology as a point of entry into conversations about models for representing the history of science and technology more broadly. Rob’s students picked apart the way the game allows players to develop science [...]
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