Media, Technology, and Education
I was lucky to know three of my four grandparents. I didn’t know my mother’s father but that’s because she didn’t know him. She never met him. The man she thought was her father died before I was born so I never knew him either. My mother’s mother was Margaret Alger. She was a bit [ ]
For my retirement/Christmas/birthday, my friend Lynne gave me Storyworth, a memoir writing tool that sends a weekly question for a year and then sends a bound, physical copy of the book to you. I have loved answering the weekly questions. This week s question is: what song always brings back a particular memory? Here s my answer: There [ ]
I received a great gift at the end of 2025 from my friend, Lynne. To celebrate my retirement, she gave me a Storyworth memoir. Each week for a year, Storyworth asks me questions curated by Lynne (which I can change if I want) and I write my answers to the questions. At the end of [ ]
I officially retired on Friday, January 2, 2026. I finished the last tasks of my termination that morning. I took the last load of stuff out of my office. I left my laptop at the tech help center. And I returned my keys to the Facilities office. The woman who took my keys thanked me [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]