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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 [...]

WordPress Themes and Academic Website Templates

Deanna — Sun, 16 May 2010 21:37:13 +0000

I have been working on a website for a research project I am involved in on Youth Participation in Music - rymeyouth.com : Research for Youth Music and Education. It is an amazing opportunity to research and work with youth and learn more about youth involvement/engagement in musical activities. Upon beginning to construct the website, pages [...]

Thoughts on Plato’s Republic Continued (Book 5 onwards)

Deanna — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:01:27 +0000

A continuation of my reading on Plato’s Republic (a few more thoughts): Within Plato’s “just” city, he is set in believing this utopia can be achieved through specific educational curriculum and societal laws. I am skeptical this could be accomplished, yet when considering many research studies within modern psychology, I feel that his belief of [...]

Thoughts on Plato: The Republic (I – IV)

Deanna — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:57:47 +0000

I have been reading Plato’s The Republic, and have had a few different thoughts bouncing around in my head. In the world of education, Platonic thinking seems to arise when you least expect it, and the more I read, the more I feel like I do not know enough. Five million questions came to mind [...]