Pedagogy of the Oppressed Neuro Tribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and The Battle that Defined a Generation The Grand Design Outgrowing God A Brief History of Time The Body Keeps the Score User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, […]
In this video I tell three amusing but awful stories from my worst conference experiences. From having my hotel reservation being given away, to staying in a college frat house and a beloved dog dying, and getting stuck in an airport for an entire day because I could not afford lodging. Academic conferences can be […]
This week I have worked on this week: Writing a proposal for the International Society of the Learning Sciences with the goal of presenting a poster related to the design and development of a Virtual Reality classroom that can be used to measure a learner’s engagement, attention, and executive function as they interact with instructional […]
In this video I discuss the academic job hunt that I went through from the Fall of 2019 to the Spring of 2020. I use SankeyMATIC to create a branching chart that represents how many jobs I applied for, how many I interviewed with, and the ultimate outcomes of these applications. Over the course of […]
In this video I discuss Three Tools for Increasing your Writing Productivity as a PhD Student or an academic. The three tools discussed are Zotero (for Google docs), Greenshot, and Crossreference (for Google docs). These tools have saved me hundreds of hours of work as I completed my dissertation and are ones that I continue […]
I was recently looking for a way of presenting an empathy map within a presentation that I could use at a conference or in a webinar. When I looked online I was surprised to see that there were no readily available Google Slides templates that could easily be embedded or formatted. I was able to […]
Using assembly language is interesting. Everything is in old school binary/hexadecimal references. Code is usually very straight forward in regards to the fact that you are literally telling specific components of hardware how to behave. This fact requires you to actually have some insight into the hardware of the console as you will be referring […]
I was having a back and forth text exchange with my dissertation chair, Dr. Matthew Schmidt about books related to Design Thinking and Interdisciplinary Design when he highly suggested that I read Interdisciplinary Interaction Design: A Visual Guide to Basic Theories, Models and Ideas for Thinking and Designing for Interactive Web Design and Digital Device […]