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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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Exploring open education with Mozilla

By Melanie, on March 30th, 2009

This coming week I’ll be starting Mozilla’s open education course as a component of my ongoing professional learning and development with emergent digital pedagogies. From the course objectives:

“The course helps educators develop basic skills in three three broad areas — open licensing, open technology, and open pedagogy — to help them apply ‘open’ in [...]

Remixing and mashing it up with RIP: A remix manifesto

By Melanie, on March 26th, 2009

Last week I taught my class about Creative Commons, Larry Lessig and remix culture. Over the weekend, still feeling inspired by remix culture, I checked out RIP: A remix manifesto:

“RiP: A remix manifesto is an open source documentary about copyright and remix culture. Created over a period of six years, the film [...]

Selected readings: 03-22-09

By Melanie, on March 22nd, 2009

[video] John Seely Brown: Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production

“I am what I create” says John Seely Brown addressing the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching – Stanford.

[publishing] Giving It Away | Cory Doctorow

I’ve been giving away my books ever since my first novel came [...]

Selected readings: 03-20-2009

By Melanie, on March 20th, 2009

Young People and Emerging Digital Services: An Exploratory Survey on Motivations, Perceptions and Acceptance of Risks

young people’s perception of the risks that the new eID technologies may pose and b) young people’s acceptance levels of these risks, and their general motivation and intent regarding the use of these new technologies

Dunbar’s number: Social capital v. social signal in Twitter

By Melanie, on March 15th, 2009

NOTE: The following post was originally published in my Twitter blog “Beyond 140.” Find more of my Twitter-specific posts there.

“Dunbar’s number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each [...]

Announcement: Speaking at AMA’s Magazines East

By Melanie, on March 11th, 2009

On March the 30th, I will be speaking at the AMA’s Magazines East conference on the subject of social media and the sharing revolution. With other Canadian magazine associations, the AMA provides professional development to magazine professionals and publications interested in keeping pace with emergent publishing paradigms and best practices for print and web.

“The [...]