Designing a transparent quiz creation system
I was the project manager over a six month collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and our client, a rapidly growing online institution. …
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Building a student centered e-portfolio program for middle school learners
Our Fall 2017 Learning Media Design class was tasked with designing an e-portfolio solution for middle school students. …
Viral Resistance: Media literacy learning and interactive narrative
From January 2017 through August of 2017, myself and another METALSs graduate student created a research-based interactive branching story that used learning science to help learners identify and demystify fake news on social media. …
Learning design for civic engagement
After the 2016 Presidential election, I was inspired to explore how people might learn about and begin to take action in their communities. …
Baskerville: A subtle seductress
We spend a lot of time with type that we’re unaware of its subtleties. Serifs, descenders and em dashes all have attributes that affect us in ways we don’t consciously acknowledge. …
Trends in copyright infringement offer a lesson in merit
There has been a large amount of talk lately about copyright infringement. SOPA and PIPA recently illustrated how ill-equipped the federal government is to handle the complexities and minutiae of maintaining an analog copyright system in a digital society. Recently, Banksy’s dispatch – adapted from his books Cut it Out and Wall and Piece, eloquently articulated relationship between advertising, infringement and the plight of the modern consumer and starting me thinking. We are definitely in a transitional period (and perhaps we will forever be), because technology has changed a rate most senior and respected offices of government cannot maintain. With inadequate regulation, copyright infringement runs rampant online, governed mainly by