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Melanie McBride is a researcher at Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab. See her About page for more information.
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Blogs instead of Power Point

By Melanie, on August 30th, 2005

I’m sure PowerPoint was useful at one time but not for me. I associate it with un-creativity and hollow corporate expression. In short, I think PowerPoint bites. And that’s why I say, use a blog instead.

In less than a week I will be teaching a college level writing course in a wired classroom. Being [...]

GTA San Andreas: What lies beneath

By Melanie, on August 5th, 2005

A few months ago a friend of ours loaned us the new Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I’d played GTA before so I was already familiar with all the graphic violence, misogynistic sexuality and straight up racist stereotyping you hear so much about. For those of you wondering why a gal like me would [...]