Bio

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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The new fridge We met a mantis Great day for a walk to the farmers market Words from our former fridge Col. Boggs flexing for Dolly Playing glassware Jim proved us wrong Bowser can't believe Herodotus Zelda round the office

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Marie Curie on Ada Lovelace Day

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Today is Ada Lovelace Day,  an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. From their website, ‘Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognized. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines.” I think the day is a great idea, and it [...]

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Sitemaps and Wireframes: Playing History

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Tonight in my Creating History with New Media class were workshoping our sitemaps and wireframes. I worked these up a few weeks ago, before we started building the live site, so some of this has already changed, but it is still worth sharing as part of the process. See the wireframe shots below.

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Omeka Not Just For Exhibits: Using Omeka To Build A Colaborative Directory

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

While Omeka is billed as a CMS for exhibiting cultural heritage projects it’s also a awesome platform for publishing collections of all sorts of stuff with rich metadata. Jim and I have been cracking away on our Playing History project and I thought I would share some of our experience working with and modifying Omeka [...]

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Working With Colors And Style For playinghistory.org

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

I realize I am getting a bit ahead of myself but I get excited about playing with the visual style of the project. Which do you think are the best? Or should I just scrap it and do something completely different?

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Another day, Another blog,

Monday, November 12th, 2007

File this under shameless plug. My fiance and I, in part inspired by this course have started a new blog. Posts at Firstpast.org, will explore the history of children’s non-fiction literature. You can see the first few posts. The first post explains what its all about, the second analyzes a few images from children’s books [...]

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If They Use It, They Will Fund: Life Cycle for Expert Search Portals

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

There is no way around it, it will take substantial effort to keep Playing History viable for the future. This is a common feature for expert search style tools. The good news is that all sorts of groups already do it, including CHNM‘s History Matters. There are substantial costs, while there are strategies for off [...]

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How Much Will It Cost!

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

As I have thought about this project it has become apparent that there are several different levels on which it would be possible to proceed. I decided to post them here to bounce them off an audience. Below I have laid out what I would do with grants of varying sizes. Does this look like [...]

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Playing History For An Audiance

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

So 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 [...]

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How Wikipedia Works

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

So this week we are going to dig into Wikipedia articles. I think this screencast on the history of the Heavy Metal Umlaut page does a great job demonstrating how Wikipedia works.

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Old Media New in New Media Skins:

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

As an oft compelling blog notes, Comic Books are Interesting Except When They are Not Interesting, and there is no shortage of both interesting and uninteresting sites presenting the history of comics on the web. For my review I will be discussing two different approaches to presenting comics and their history. The first site, Beyond [...]

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