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Stem, Video Game Play, & Gender = Personalization, Wendi M. Kappers
Stem, Video Game Play, & Gender = Personalization, Wendi M. Kappers
Wendi M. Kappers, PhD
It is imperative when utilizing educational video games in K-12 classrooms that student preferences regarding game play, purpose, and design be considered to maximize game play efficiency for learning. As Web 2.0 content infiltrates our educational medium, student customization is key. This manuscript intends to share customization requests gleaned during an 18-week experimental study examining educational video game effects upon 7th graders enrolled in Mathematics and Mathematics 2 courses.
Prosthetic Configurations: Rethinking Relationships Of Bodies, Technologies, And (Dis)Abilities, Amanda Booher
Prosthetic Configurations: Rethinking Relationships Of Bodies, Technologies, And (Dis)Abilities, Amanda Booher
Amanda Booher
This work rethinks configurations of and relationships between bodies and prosthetics, emerging from a gap between three particular theoretical perspectives. The first perspective builds from Gender and Disability Studies theories; the second operates within the frame of post–humanity and cyborgean theories, specifically though Bernard Stiegler, Katherine Hayles, and Donna Haraway; the third is a practical/medical perspective, demonstrated through the experiences of people with amputations and medical prosthetics, as well as through the influence of medical visualization technologies. While offering productive and compelling means of complicating and deconstructing boundaries of bodies and prosthetics, these perspectives often operate independently; an integrative perspective …
Polymediated Narrative: The Case Of The Supernatural Episode "Fan Fiction", Art Herbig, Andrew F. Herrmann
Polymediated Narrative: The Case Of The Supernatural Episode "Fan Fiction", Art Herbig, Andrew F. Herrmann
Andrew F. Herrmann
Modern stories are the product of a recursive process influenced by elements of genre, outside content, medium, and more. These stories exist in a multitude of forms and are transmitted across multiple media. This article examines how those stories function as pieces of a broader narrative, as well as how that narrative acts as a world for the creation of stories. Through an examination of the polymediated nature of modern narratives, we explore the complicated nature of modern storytelling.
Interview With A First Generation Female Argentinean Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Argentinean Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Lisa Roy-Davis
Female immigrant from Argentina discusses her immigrant experience including her life in Argentina, meeting her husband, working for Texas Instruments, and difficulties obtaining her work Visa.
Interview With A First Generation Male Indian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Male Indian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Lisa Roy-Davis
Male immigrant from India discusses his families immigration from India to Dubai to America. He relates how he had a carefree childhood living in a small village in Dubai. He specifically discusses his experiences in America going to college and having a successful sales career in the technology sector.
Interview With A First Generation Male Indian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Male Indian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Lisa Roy-Davis
Male immigrant from India who immigrated to America for college. He begins his interview describing the social and cultural differences he had to deal with in America. Then he relates his first experiences in Dallas with discrimination and being mistaken for a Mexican. He also discusses his career in the technology field in America. Lastly he discusses bring his family to America and the issues he and they faced in assimilating into American culture.
Interview With A First Generation Female Argentinean Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Argentinean Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Lisa Roy-Davis
Female immigrant from Argentina discusses her immigrant experience including her life in Argentina, meeting her husband, working for Texas Instruments, and difficulties obtaining her work Visa.