http://wordpress.roxanahadad.com I'll learn you! Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:56:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, in case I haven't told you, or you haven't noticed on Facebook or Twitter, I'm now a student.  Again.  I'm a doctoral student in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago's College of Education.  I'm going part-time, while working full-time at the CTC.  If I finish, it ... http://wordpress.roxanahadad.com/?p=157 All of my grandparents were pretty amazing people.  My Abuelita Chela (my dad's mom) was amazing at crochet and cooking (she would make me the best dulce de leche, even though it would burn her hands every time she made it).  She was also a violinist and a schoolteacher (education ... http://wordpress.roxanahadad.com/?p=156 My annual pilgrimage to Northern California began this year with a trip to the Google Geo Institute. Aside from seeing the awesomeness that is the Google campus (Google bicycles to get you around! Google umbrellas everywhere in case it starts to rain! Great food as far as ... http://wordpress.roxanahadad.com/?p=159 On Saturday, I drove up to Madison with my colleague, Wendy Thomas, and had the good fortune to attend the 2nd annual Games + Learning + Society Conference Educator Symposium. Although GLS has been around for 6 years, the Educator Symposium is still pretty new. And for only ... http://wordpress.roxanahadad.com/?p=155 Merlin John followed up his article for Futurelab with another piece on the Games Design Workshop on his own site, MerlinJohnOnline. In this article, you learn a little more about what I really found exciting about the course ... that game design and teaching in an online format were really ... http://wordpress.roxanahadad.com/?p=154 Woo! Merlin John has posted a great article about our games course in today's Futurelab!   He did a great job of capturing the atmosphere of the class and boy, does he make me sound good! http://wordpress.roxanahadad.com/?p=153 There was lots of buzz about ITP this weekend. First, NPR's On the Media showed up at the Spring Show and had a great interview with some students and Clay Shirky.  Then, the BBC put on their front page a really nice slideshow of the Spring Show. Both of ... http://wordpress.roxanahadad.com/?p=152 Today, Noah Swinney Stein and I went to Curie Metro High School to show them what was possible with the digital visualizers (document cameras) that CTC loaned the school.  Noah brought a bunch of compost and I brought the camera, and together, we zoomed in on what looked like a ... http://wordpress.roxanahadad.com/?p=151 Photo by Ian Usher I can't believe it, but another year came and went, and before I knew it, it was July and time again for the Adobe Education Leader Summer Institute.   This year was extra special, as a new group of Higher Education Adobe Education Leaders joined us ... http://wordpress.roxanahadad.com/?p=148 For those of you who do not know, I have a new job!  I am now the Director of Math/Science/Technology (MST) at the Chicago Teachers' Center (CTC) at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU).*  The CTC is a wonderful place that has been around since 1978, with the defining purpose of reforming ... http://wordpress.roxanahadad.com/?p=147