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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]