How would you feel if the only people you could call or text using your phone were people who were using the same carrier as you? If you were on Verizon, for example, you couldn’t call your best friend who uses T-Mobile as their phone provider. If you wanted to call or text your best […]| Desert of My Real Life
My sabbatical is coming to an end and my video game, Nebula Hunter, is not finished yet. Making a game by yourself takes a lot of time! I’ll write an update of my work soon. But I have been distracted for the past couple of months with a side project inspired by a conference that […]| Desert of My Real Life
I am about half-way through my sabbatical and I estimate that my sabbatical project is a bit more than half done. But, of course, the last 20% of any project like this is the hardest so maybe I’m less than half done. I have learned a ton about using GML, GameMaker’s built-in language to make […]| Desert of My Real Life
It has been a while since I wrote a blog post. I’m on sabbatical this academic year and I am working on a game for my sabbatical project. I’ve been posting some updates about my progress to my social media accounts but this is the first post that I have felt compelled to write documenting […]| Desert of My Real Life
Integrated Capstone (INCAP) classes at Plymouth State University are supposed to engage students in the development of an interdisciplinary signature project. To understand what “interdisciplinary” means, we first have to understand what we mean by an academic discipline. In my new INCAP class this Spring (Games for Impact), I will be asking students to think […]| Desert of My Real Life
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When I last taught Media and Cultural Studies six years ago, students worked on an Open Education Resource (OER) for the class. I wrote about this experiment in our new Cluster Learning Model at the time and would still consider it a success. I’m teaching the class in the Fall for the first time since […]| Desert of My Real Life
I think those of us who are educators would agree that, since the start of the pandemic, our students are more distracted than ever. In fact, I think most of us, educators or not, feel more distracted than ever. There are health concerns and trying to keep ourselves and our families safe. There are political […]| Desert of My Real Life
A Facebook memory popped up that twelve years ago today, I submitted a chapter to a forthcoming video game book. I shared the memory and pointed out that despite a couple of years of interaction with the editors, the book had never been published. One of my friends suggested that I post the paper here […]| Desert of My Real Life
I started in astrophotography about 6 months ago. I have consulted a lot of different sources to learn all kinds of stuff during this time. One of the most interesting places to learn has been onli…| Desert of My Real Life
I have been moving away from traditional grading schemes for a while. In teaching the INCAP course in Spring 2019 and Tackling a Wicked Problem in Fall 2019, I have moved fully into the ungrading c…| Desert of My Real Life
