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Lunch with Linda J. Castaneda (@lindacq) Thursday, June 6

Dr. Leigh Graves Wolf announced she will host Dr. Linda J. Castaneda on June 6 – from Dr. Wolf: I’m beyond delighted to announce that Linda Castañeda will be visiting campus on Thursday, June 6, […] More

Your Story as a Streamlined Mishmash

Scanning the latest apps in the App Store over the weekend, I came across this statement: Today’s storytelling involves a mishmash of apps, websites, blog tools, and technologies. Perspective simplifies […] More

Maria Konnikova Thinks Blogging Can Save Your Dissertation

Maria Konnikova wrote an insightful piece in Scientific American back in April that rings true to our hearts. For those who haven’t read her SA blog, Konnikova is a doctoral […] More

Endless rewriting: What great academic advising looks like

Helen Hazen, is the author of 1983 book, Endless Rapture: Rape, Romance, and the Female Imagination. In a recent article in The American Scholar titled “Endless Rewriting” she recounts the way the book […] More

ideaplay.org - Google Glass Updates

It’s been two weeks since ideaplay.org got word from Google that our application to become Glass Explorers had been accepted. In the meantime, there’s been a flurry of excitement, anticipation, […] More

Watching TV may improve your teaching!

TV show producers and advertisers have spent a lot of time and money perfecting a system maximizing the user’s experience, and good instructional design can easily capitalize on this organization.  […] More

The Darkest Hour is Just Before Proposal Defense

As I’m nearing the end of my first year as a tenure-track faculty member, it’s pretty clear to me that the risk I took when I quit a secure government […] More

10 Tips for Doctoral Failure

Tara Brabazon, professor of media studies at the University of Brighton, has an essay in the Times Higher Education, titled How not to write a PhD thesis, providing her top ten tips for doctoral […] More

EPET @ SITE 2013

To showcase the MSU EPET experience at this year’s SITE conference in New Orleans, I put together this video highlighting main events from our stay there.  Happy viewing! MSU EPET […] More

Of dissertations, books, surviving grad school and beyond

Introduction (by Punya Mishra) Stephen Vassallo was a doctoral student in our program and is currently faculty member at American University in Washington DC. He was my advisee but intelligently […] More
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Lunch with Linda J. Castaneda (@lindacq) Thursday, June 6

By Josh Rosenberg - May 22, 2013
Dr. Leigh Graves Wolf announced she will host Dr. Linda J. Castaneda on June 6 – from Dr. Wolf: I’m beyond delighted to announce that Linda Castañeda will be visiting campus on Thursday, June 6, 2013.  I met Linda at the PELeCON conference last year and we immediately connected – we work in similar areas and share a passion for all [...]
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Your Story as a Streamlined Mishmash

By William Cain - May 13, 2013
Scanning the latest apps in the App Store over the weekend, I came across this statement: Today’s storytelling involves a mishmash of apps, websites, blog tools, and technologies. Perspective simplifies all this by combining the essential elements of storytelling into a single iPad App. It case that wasn’t clear, the statement came from a product description for Perspective, an iPad app that bills [...]
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Maria Konnikova Thinks Blogging Can Save Your Dissertation

By ideaplay - May 2, 2013
Maria Konnikova wrote an insightful piece in Scientific American back in April that rings true to our hearts. For those who haven’t read her SA blog, Konnikova is a doctoral student in psychology at Columbia, as well as a best-selling author, so she knows a thing or two about the written word. In her opinion (and ours for that matter), the [...]
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Endless rewriting: What great academic advising looks like

By Punya Mishra - April 22, 2013
Helen Hazen, is the author of 1983 book, Endless Rapture: Rape, Romance, and the Female Imagination. In a recent article in The American Scholar titled “Endless Rewriting” she recounts the way the book came to be and in particular the role that her editor (Jacques Barzun) played in getting the book started and more importantly finished. I found the essay absolutely fascinating—a [...]
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ideaplay.org – Google Glass Updates

By ideaplay - April 11, 2013
It’s been two weeks since ideaplay.org got word from Google that our application to become Glass Explorers had been accepted. In the meantime, there’s been a flurry of excitement, anticipation, and speculation as to who some of the other winners are, what their applications looked like, and… when we will finally get our hands on them! There’s still no [...]
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Watching TV may improve your teaching!

By Tracy Russo - April 10, 2013
TV show producers and advertisers have spent a lot of time and money perfecting a system maximizing the user’s experience, and good instructional design can easily capitalize on this organization.  Our goal of hooking learners and getting them engaged with the content and peer activities along with returning week after week until the season’s finale is quite similar to TV network goals.  Through breaking down [...]
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The Darkest Hour is Just Before Proposal Defense

By Penny Thompson - April 9, 2013
As I’m nearing the end of my first year as a tenure-track faculty member, it’s pretty clear to me that the risk I took when I quit a secure government job, sold my house, and moved 700 miles away from friends and family to pursue a PhD was a smart, calculated risk.  During the five years that I spent completing the degree, however, there were [...]
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10 Tips for Doctoral Failure

By Punya Mishra - April 8, 2013
Tara Brabazon, professor of media studies at the University of Brighton, has an essay in the Times Higher Education, titled How not to write a PhD thesis, providing her top ten tips for doctoral failure. Though the essay is geared towards dissertations in media studies (as indicated by the mention deconstruction, poststructuralism, Derrida, Baudrillard and more…) there are broader lessons that makes sense for doctoral candidates in education [...]
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