This video features the work of Christopher Emdin and his new book, Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation.

Find out about this great concurrent gallery show: Not to be confused with a TV Game Show, Game Show NYC (GSNYC) expands the concept of an Art Show by making the enjoyment of art an active and educative experience. GSNYC will serve as a forum to bring together artists, educators, and game designers, with the purpose of engaging and educating the public. Game Show NYC builds on Game Show Detroit, which was held at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID) in 2006. For details on the original exhibition please see:

I'll be co-presenting with Peter Beaugard (on "Using Graphic Design Methods & Interactive Tools to Encourage Play in Online Learning") and Nate Dern – (on "Crowdsourcing Creativity"). Join us at "Tech Panel I" at 10:45 - 12:15, on Friday May 27, 2011. My session is titled, "Supporting Academic Creativity With Online Tools." What is academic creativity and why support it? "Academic creativity" is not the same as just any kind of creativity. It's creativity that's exhibited/manifested/experienced in the pursuit of scholarly work – a sub-gen...

As a library staff member who oversees services, I'd like to provide an update and a reflection on a recent technology malfunction in one of our classroom-sized rooms, Russell Hall 306. What's Wrong and When it Will Be Fixed Our Crestron unit which is the brain of all the classroom technology in 306 failed about three weeks ago. As an expensive and embedded system (think: a ~$50,000 closet-sized system), we have a top-of-the-line maintenance contract but no full-featured back...

See my reflections on this conference over on my personal Pressible site... where you can always see my more political views. :)

Hello Presenters and other Conference-goers who want to join the conversation, You've been serenaded, but are you using Pressible like a pro yet? After you've been added as an author to this site (use the "Contact" link to request this), here are some easy steps to enhance your work on this Pressible site: Choose your preferred display name. When you post, your username is displayed by default, but you can change it. Here's how: Log in and go to the "Dashboard" (link on the header...

Overview The Gottesman Libraries is looking for designers that are able to understand the implications of educational data, and will award up to 20 designers an honorarium of $500 for work that visualizes data and potentially connects it to existing or potential educational policy, the effects of such policy upon students, and society at large. We are interested in entries that articulate the breadth of possible approaches to data visualization – from static representations to Processing visualizations, and everything in between. Some...