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SFU: Social Media to Advance Your Graduate Career Panel Slides

Deanna — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:00:44 +0000

I gave a talk at Simon Fraser University as a part of a panel for the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies on Using Social Media to Advance Your Graduate Career. The talk was focused on graduate students just starting off with social media, but can be applicable for various disciplines and careers. It [...]

Graduate School vs World of Warcraft (Part 2): Explaining The Path to Graduate Studies Thru the MMORPG Game

Deanna — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:35:02 +0000

Note: This post is a continuance of Part 1 Graduate School vs World of Warcraft (Part 1): Explaining The Path of Graduate Studies Thru the MMORPG Game Graduate studies are an endeavour that if you haven’t experienced it yourself, you don’t know what to expect. Graduate school doesn’t have an exact real-world counterpart, unless you [...]

Graduate School vs World of Warcraft (Part 1): Explaining The Path to Graduate Studies Thru the MMORPG Game

Deanna — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:50:00 +0000

Graduate studies are one of those endeavours that if you haven’t experienced it yourself, you don’t know what to expect. Graduate school doesn’t have an exact real-world counterpart, unless you are in the sciences, where you may go onto a scientific research career. But for the most part, graduate school is an unknown, where anecdotes [...]

Education: Are curriculum designers jumping on the iPad bandwagon?

Deanna — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:06:00 +0000

Stepping into a modern day classroom, you will find that it is filled with a ubiquitous array of multimodal and digital resources, yet a majority of these revolutionary resources are likely not school issued, rather they were brought by the young people themselves. Digital mediums for communication, expression and multimodally engaging in one’s own life, [...]

Shock! Awe! & Oh the Possibilities: iBooks Textbooks!

Deanna — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:23:51 +0000

In the endeavour to find ways to incorporate technologically relevant educational tools into our teaching practices it is obvious that the iPad is the new go-to item for teachers and parents in 2012. If you haven’t heard, the most recent launch of iBooks 2 now presents a revolutionary future for textbooks and teaching materials that [...]

The Comic Universe Is Taking Over 2011! Especially Halloween!

Deanna — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:00:07 +0000

Unless you have been living under an underground lair for all of 2011, you would have been witness to the massive take-over of Hollywood movies with DC Comics or Marvel comic-book themed, inspired or plain-out adaptations. For those of you living in your underground crime fighting caves (á la Batman), I will fill you in. Over the [...]

Reading Digital Comics and Free Marvel Comic Monday (Yes, Free!)

Deanna — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:58:58 +0000

I am always happy to find a way to acquire cheap or free comic books, especially when it is the newest issue for the month. While I typically love the feeling of the paper between my fingers, and the sheer portability of my newest comics, I have slowly been getting used to the occasional digital [...]

Update on Blizzard’s Cenarion Hatchling for Japan Relief (Say what?!)

Deanna — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:00:28 +0000

Back in May I had posted about Blizzard’s efforts to raise money for the devastating earthquakes and tsunami in Japan with the Japan Earthquake Relief. I had mentioned that there was the World of Warcraft: Adopt a Pet – Cenarion Hatchling for Japan. These cute little Cenarion hatchling in-game pets cost a measly $10 USD, with [...]

Two Favourite Portal 2 Songs

Deanna — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:11:36 +0000

If you have ever played Portal (1) and gotten to the end, or followed any of the hub-bub about the video game, you would know about the ending credit song sung by the maniacal sentient robot GLaDOS. The song “Still Alive” is cute, creepy and plain out catchy. I will find myself often singing it [...]

Free Comic Book Day: May 7th 2011! (All-Ages Event: from 1 to 101 years old)

Deanna — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:15:22 +0000

Free comic book day! “Free” you ask? Yes! No it isn’t too good to be true. When: The first Saturday of May every year is “Free Comic Book Day”, which this year is this Saturday, May 7th 2011! Where: Comic book and hobby stores across the world (there are a growing number of participating stores, [...]