Reflection on Meaningful Play 2012
Meaningful Play, a conference for “serious” games that takes place every two years, was hosted at Michigan State University last week. Unfortunately, I was not able to present anything this […]
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Did the Mayans predict the end of print?
Perhaps the end of the Mayan calendar was not predicting the end of the world but the end of print media (as we know it). Newsweek is getting rid of […]
Analyzing political speeches with Twitter
The Atlantic published a graph showing the volume of tweets related to the Democratic convention (w/ speech by Michelle Obama on second night) and how that volume compares with tweets […]
Dawn Wohn Performing at Music@Menlo
My sister Dawn, who is a violinist, was selected as one of the ten artists of the international program at Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival in the Bay area. She […]
May conferences: CHI2012, ICA2012
The two main conferences that I go to were both in May this year, so May felt like a huge networking event. At CHI2012, I presented a paper on how […]
Performing Faure’s Requiem
This spring semester, I joined the MSU Choral Union, a group of mainly older adults who love music. Rehearsals were only once a week for less than two hours, so […]
Winning two awards for 2012
I’m so happy to announce that I won two awards for the 2011-2012 academic year. The first is the General Excellence Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Teaching and Citizenship given by […]
Digital Media Conference (DML 2012)
The first day at DML: it was such an engaging conference and a lot of the presentations so pertinent to my personal interests and feelings about education. For one, it […]
D. Yvette Wohn 