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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 [...]

Connecting With and Making Contacts on Social Media: Where is the Dummy’s Guide?!

Deanna — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:07:14 +0000

In many interactions with people, be it in the workplace, coffee shop or at the daycare, the common question sometime during the exchange of ideas, concepts, general discourse, or daily pleasantries tends to be “what is the best way to get in contact with you?”. 20 years ago, that simple question would have been answered [...]

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 [...]

Touring San Francisco: More than just a rust coloured bridge! (French Cafes & Cable Cars)

Deanna — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:31:46 +0000

The streets of San Francisco are filled with tourists year round. From those that are shoppers, clubbers, outdoor afficionados or foodies, there is a diverse range in the types of people that come to the city. No matter where you come from though, there tends to be a few main things that new tourists always [...]

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 [...]