Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Graduate Student, Language, Literature, and Communication
HASS Fellow
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) at Rensselaer
About
I am PhD candidate and HASS Fellow in the department of Rhetoric and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My professional background is in educational film and video production. I have also worked as an adjunct professor and have taught Speech, Introduction to Cinema, Introduction to Humanities, and an Honors Colloquium. At RPI I have been a guest lecturer for Psychological and Social Effects of Games, teaching assistant for Proposing and Persuading, guest lecturer, recitation leader, and course co-developer for Writing in the Digital Age, and a research assistant for RAMP-Up, an ADVANCE Project of the National Science Foundation.
My research focuses on ways to assess opportunities for informal learning and imaginative, self-directed play in video games and Internet environments. It is also concerned with integrating tangible, or material objects in virtual play, and ways to enrich technology environments for young people overall. An experimental educational video game I co-designed for children that uses physical objects to instigate virtual play won third place at the Vicarious Visions Fifth Annual Game Festival and Symposium at RPI in April 2009. Visit http://www.llc.rpi.edu/news/archives.pl?page=1 and scroll down to link to a short demo of the game "Animal Wrangler."
Contact Information
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, New York 12180 USA
