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Enhancing Online Learning with Facebook and Physiological Sensors
With over 2 billion users, Facebook is by far the most popular social network, especially on college campuses. However, the potential of social networks as learning tools is only just being realized. Little empirical, non-self-reported data on the usability of Facebook is available to researchers, and so it is difficult to determine which aspects of…
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Pearson Learning Design Principles
In December 2016, Pearson released a set of Learning Design Principles for public use. As a member of the Learning Design team, I contributed to the research syntheses, writing, and iteration of these principles. We use these principles daily at Pearson as design guidelines for our products. You can read more about the Learning Design…
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Improving Adolescent Writing Quality and Motivation with Sparkfolio, a Social Media Based Writing Tool
In November 2014, I defended my doctoral dissertation, titled Improving Adolescent Writing Quality and Motivation with Sparkfolio, a Social Media Based Writing Tool. Its abstract and suggested citation are below, and you can read the full manuscript here. Abstract Writing instruction poses both cognitive and affective challenges, particularly for adolescents. American teens not only fall…
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Social Media Based Writing
American teens continue to fall short of national writing standards, often claiming school writing is too challenging and that they have nothing interesting to say. However, teens constantly and enthusiastically immerse themselves in text-based digital communication via text messaging, email, and social media. While such activities are, in fact, writing, research indicates that teens instead…
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Embodied Concept Mapping
Creating learning experiences that are meaningful and motivational is crucial in learning, and organizing ideas via concept maps allows students to view prior knowledge with new perspectives. In recent years, embodied computation–the control of digital technology with gestures– has emerged as a novel way to meet educational objectives through intuitive control and associating knowledge with…
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REPLAY – Reproductive Life Plan Video
In connection with Reproductive Life Plan for You (REPLAY), a health education program funded by the March of Dimes, I collaborated with Maricopa Integrated Health Systems (MIHS) and Eight, Arizona’s PBS station, to create an animated instructional video that was used to teach limited-English speakers about how to create a Reproductive Life Plan, a movement…
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Digital Culture Creative Classrooms (DC3)
Although children and young adults are immersed in digital culture daily through technologies such as social media, handheld devices, and streaming video, most are not familiar with the computational thinking behind these technologies, and unfortunately, there are few opportunities in secondary school curricula for students to learn such practices. However, due to these same technologies,…
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CritViz
Critviz is a web-based tool that was created to support peer critique in large classrooms. In learning environments where students’ work does not necessarily have clear “right” or “wrong” answers–particularly in the areas of writing and other creative arts–students can often benefit from detailed critical feedback from multiple perspectives which can clarify their direction. For…
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Unsaturated Soils Learning Modules
From January 2012 to January 2013, I was a graduate research assistant on an NSF-funded project, “Advancement of Unsaturated Soils Theory into the Undergraduate Civil Engineering Curriculum.” While knowledge of unsaturated soil mechanics is vital for professional engineers in the field, the subject is seldom addressed in undergraduate engineering classes, and typically not introduced until…
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Most Common Words in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, By Narrator Frequency
I’ve always loved Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, partly because of the way the story is told through three narrators with their own distinct voices. For those unfamiliar with it, the novel begins with Robert Walton, a sailor, as narrator. In his travels, he encounters a sick stranger and takes him on board his ship to nurse…
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Timeline
This is a timeline I created of the events in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. For those unfamiliar with the film, the main character (Joel)–in the wake of a nasty breakup–decides to have all memories of his former girlfriend (Clementine) erased from his mind through a sci-fi-esque company called Lacuna. Joel becomes…
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