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Melanie McBride is Toronto educator, speaker and researcher at Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab. See her About page for more information.
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My first machinima

By Melanie, on November 9th, 2009

My first machinima – Virtual World Learning v. H1N1 The above “news report” on H1N1 and virtual worlds is part of an assignment I just completed for an additional qualification course in Media at York University. The idea was to create two news reports in two different media. I chose to do a print story [...]

“Authority” v. wikipedia (why teachers are picking the wrong fight)

By Melanie, on November 7th, 2009

Last week, one of my media course (ed PD) classmates talked about the ongoing struggle to help students make sense of the flood of information online. She cited a negative experience with wikipedia, which resulted in an energetic exchange about the merits (and challenges) with open online content. It’s not about “authority” nor should it [...]