Global Academic with expertise in Pedagogy, Digital Literacy, & Qualitative Research Methods
As I draft this post, education and life remain disrupted by COVID-19, right now mostly due to the rapidly spreading omicron variant. The University of Rochester’s spring semester has been moved online to help slow the spread in Monroe County, where the 7-day average for new cases has continued to climb to numbers we’ve not…
Through his research to discover what makes people really happy, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has come to understand the impact that finding extreme pleasure and lasting satisfaction in one’s work can have. Being in a state of flow – what he describes as the intensity, or “ecstasy,” and other worldly, out of body state that occurs “when…
What I’m learning from all of these opportunities to share and connect with researchers, students, teachers, and teacher educators To say that I’ve had a busy speaking schedule since starting this adventure in the Southern Hemisphere might be as much of an understatement as saying that the climate here in Java is “warm.” It started…
Last week in Brisbane, Australia, I had the opportunity to participate in the Association of Internet Researchers Conference and the pre-conference gathering of the Young, Creative, Connected Network. We met on the beautiful urban Gardens Point campus of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), adjacent to the Botanical Gardens, in Brisbane city center. Both events created…
In late July, I had the wonderful opportunity to work with my long-time collaborator and dear friend, Alecia Magnifico, as we co-designed and co-facilitated a week-long, graduate credit course as part of the University of New Hampshire’s Literacy Institute. Our course, “Writing in the Wild: Fanfiction as a Classroom Practice,” was a brilliant opportunity to…