“While educators used to worry about the ‘digital divide’, they should now consider the ‘participation gap’.”
Communicative 2.0: Video Games and Digital Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom
Two core concepts in youth entertainment that will increasingly become central in future attempts to design affordable foreign language learning materials.
NML Teaches Transmedia Storytelling Skills
The New Media Literacies (NML) initiative begins 2006 with a project prototype focused on transmedia storytelling, starting with the curious-looking alien characters from the original ‘cantina’ scene from Star Wars IV.
Unschooling Media: Participatory Practices among Progressive Homeschoolers
The attitudes, beliefs and practices related to media and technology in the unschooling subculture.
Sam Ford Discusses CMS at NPCA/ACA Conference
Sam Ford, S.M., ’07 Graduate student Sam Ford (2007) was a member of the panel “The Perils and Promise of Interdisciplinarity” on Friday, April 14.
In Medias Res, Spring 2006
Reports coming from our alumnae demonstrates that our community has done very well indeed. Graduates have delivered on our goal of applied humanism.
LA Times on Gaming Programs in Academia
“Jenkins is one of many university professors who draw the comparison between today’s emerging interactive entertainment curriculum and the film schools that emerged in the ’70s.”
