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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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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 features the [...]

2 million reasons not to Facebook through class

By Melanie, on March 8th, 2008

From the start of elementary school until high school graduation, students spend two million minutes preparing for their future. Director Chad Heeter’s documentary 2 Million Minutes explores the dramatic differences between the way Western students spend that time versus students in China and India.

Second Skin: A documentary about MMOs

By Melanie, on January 29th, 2008

Check out the trailer for Second Skin, a new documentary about massively multiplayer online gamers. As a gaming-positive educator, I was also excited to see my friend and colleague Tony Walsh, make an appearance in the film. From Tony’s blog: “Since 2006, I’ve been following the adventures of the team at Pure West–filmmakers researching and [...]