This is a selection of my work. It includes journalism projects in video, audio, and written formats and social media content i’ve produced for clients and for my Youtube Channel.
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Imagi-Learning: A Proposal to transform how Australian students earn their senior certificates
This will be the last post in this series on Gamification in Education, which began with my experimentation of gamifying my universities LMS. When I was experimenting with the gamification of Deakin’s LMS I was frustrated with the limitations placed on me by the design of the university system. In my follow up posts I…
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Failing Up: How micro-gamification is changing grading
As I’ve been approaching researching gamification in educational contexts I’ve noticed that teachers approaching a game-design based approach to their lesson curriculum nearly all change how they approach grades from average to an additive approach. You start with zero and for every task you complete you gain “XP” which add up to your final grade…
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Beyond Pointsification: Narrative in educational gamification
Last week I posted an edutainment minisode on my Soundcloud about gamifying Deakin’s LMS. In that podcast minisode I talked about wanting to add narrative to Deakin’s LMS, but felt that it would be too difficult to implement across the LMS. Today I want to talk about an experiment at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf where they…
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Critical Role and the Power of Storytelling
In march of 2019 a niche live-stream show called Critical Role set the record for highest amount raised on kickstarter in the arts category with an astonishing 11.3 million dollars (Whitten, 2019). I donated to that kickstarter, I watched as the cast of the show and their production team were moved to tears by the…
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Crafting Identity: Playing make believe on the internet till I get my Queer Utopia
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about hope. Faced with a daily onslaught of minute-to-minute disaster it is increasingly difficult to imagine a better future, to find a place of hope in the wasteland of the World Wide Web. I’ve also been thinking a lot about gender, class, and identity as I’ve been working on…
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