Category Archives: Teaching

The MS grad’s job

By alex | Published: 3/22/2009
One of the questions the faculty in the Interactive Communication program at Quinnipiac discuss is the sort of jobs people do when finished with the program. I don’t think we have a set job in mind, but this posting out of the Obama administration comes close: New Media Director of an Agency The New Media […]
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Dealing out the Uni

By alex | Published: 3/20/2009
Howard Rheingold recently tweeted something that plugged into a question I have been mulling over for a while: If I taught a truncated online version of Social Media CoLab for 6 weeks, no accreditation, what would students pay? In particular, I tried (somewhat unsuccessfully) to relocate a small grad seminar to the local Panera Bread. […]
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Learnable Moments

By alex | Published: 3/3/2009
Yesterday was a snow day in New York City; the first in five years, apparently. Went out walking with Jasper so he could check out the snow. Lots of dads seemed to have taken their own snow day in order to engage in large scale snowball fights and sledding in the park. A whole range […]
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Learning from games

By alex | Published: 3/2/2009
Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?
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