I have a confession to make. I love magazines. You could say I am a magazine addict. This doesn’t really fit with my image as a digital media professor, but I can’t help myself. Maybe it has something to do with the smell of a new magazine, that unique combination of glossy paper and ink. […]
A red silk shirt with blousey sleeves. A black ascot. And a black beret. It was an outfit tailored to make a skinny white kid with stringy hair look like a goober. In seventh grade, I was one of the first students bussed across town to help integrate the Rockdale County school system. Although I wouldn’t […]
The 2010 iDMAa awards recognized excellence and achievement in the field of digital media and in digital media education at their annual awards dinner in Vancouver, BC, on November 5th. The association recognized Amy Christen, vice president of Corporate Affairs at Cisco Systems with the Pioneering Achievement Award for her contributions to digital education through […]
Twitter. LinkedIn. Augmented reality. I learned about all of these trends and others while at the iDMAa conferences in years past. Every year I go to the iDMAa conference to network with digital media professors and professionals across the nation and the world. Not only do I benefit from my interactions with programs that are […]
Professor Hazen came into the class and drew three lines on the chalk board (remember those?) — each at 45 degree angles to each other but not quite touching. “What is it?” were his first words in the Psychology of Perception course I took my junior year at UGA. “A triangle” the five students who […]
Glenn Platt, iDMAa Past-President and C. Michael Armstrong Chair at the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies, Miami University; and Peg Faimon, iDMAa Advisory Board member and Co-Director of the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies, Miami University, made a presentation on Universities in the “Free” Era at the 2010 South by Southwest 2010 Interactive Conference. […]
I almost missed the High Balls. My favorite 80s band played at the Melting Point and I didn’t know until the last minute. Unforgivable. Believe it or not with all the music swirling around the Classic City, Athens does not have many places where you can go to dance. And I came within a few hours […]
I wanted to be a PROFESSOR. You know. Authoritative. Knowledgeable. Respected. Tweedy. Ok, a little intimidating and sort of aloof. You know, A PROFESSOR. I was only 27. I was worried students wouldn’t take me seriously — some weren’t that much younger than I was. So I only told them professional things — like what […]
In 1985, I was in Salt Lake working on my Ph.D. at the University of Utah — with a beard. My major professor and mentor, Bob Tiemens, was doing a collaborative project with Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, UT. He planned a class trip to BYU to collect data. The day before we were […]
“I am a 35 year old single mom, and I work full time in downtown Atlanta to support myself and my two beautiful children. In my twenties I used to exercise regularly, but since my divorce four years ago I often find that I am too exhausted to make it to the gym. My hectic […]