Paradigms Chart: The Educational Stance of James Paul Gee

Paradigms Chart: The Educational Stance of James Paul Gee

When asked to create a paradigms chart for and educational philosopher or theorist, my mind went straight to James Paul [...]

May 17, 2012     No Comments
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Online Class: The Webex Experience

Online Class: The Webex Experience

Cisco’s Webex online conferencing application is meant for the corporate world. While it does offer particular features that are useful [...]

Apr 3, 2012     No Comments
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Precis: “It’s Sociobiology, Hon!”

Precis: “It’s Sociobiology, Hon!”

INTRODUCTION In ‘It’s Sociobiology, Hon!’ (2009), Amy Hasinoff explores the use and implication of sociobiology and gender essentialism as portrayed [...]

Apr 3, 2012     No Comments
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Triple Entry on ‘Boys and Machines’

Triple Entry on ‘Boys and Machines’

SUMMARY Using a social constructivist and post-positivist feminist framework, Abbiss explores the implications of gender identity of users within information [...]

Apr 2, 2012     No Comments
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Technophilia and the Monstrous Feminine in ‘Splice’

Technophilia and the Monstrous Feminine in ‘Splice’

The Canadian Sci-Fi film ‘Splice’ (2009) is about the monstrous feminine (Creed, 2000), and the horror of procreation via science. [...]

Mar 12, 2012     No Comments
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Addressing Judy Wajcman’s ‘From Women and Technology to Gendered Technoscience”

Addressing Judy Wajcman’s ‘From Women and Technology to Gendered Technoscience”

Judy Wajcman’s article ‘From Women & Technology to Gendered Technoscience’ maps key concepts that address the relationship between technology and [...]

Mar 12, 2012     No Comments
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Book Review: Women, Gender, and Technology

Book Review: Women, Gender, and Technology

Clips from: Alien: Res­ur­rec­tion Aliens Blade Run­ner Con­tact Bat­tlestar Galac­tica Metrop­o­lis Star Trek: First Con­tact Women, gen­der, and tech­nol­ogy. (2006). In [...]

Feb 24, 2012     No Comments
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Playing L.A. Noire

Playing L.A. Noire

I sat down and played L.A. Noire on Xbox today. L.A. Noire is a crime-based video game set in Los [...]

Feb 15, 2012     No Comments
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Spatial Surveillance While Sitting and Sipping at Starbucks

Spatial Surveillance While Sitting and Sipping at Starbucks

DESCRIPTIVE NOTE: I am sitting in a coffee shop located on the second floor of a bookstore in midtown Toronto [...]

Jan 27, 2012     No Comments
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Simone de Beauvoir: An Other Woman

Simone de Beauvoir: An Other Woman

In her eminent feminist text The Second Sex, Simone De Beauvoir writes, “Appearing as the Other, women appears at the [...]

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Editing Demo Reel

Editing Demo Reel

Eating Well Looks Good On You – 2008 This Ontario Government initiated project with Dalton McGuinty and David Rocco was [...]

Jan 25, 2012     No Comments
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