Michael Biocchi

Posted on June 15, 2008 by JimS

[Published 15 June 2011]

I am a current PhD student focusing my research on Education Technology and E-learning. My research is aimed at using video games as a tool instead of a means of entertainment. I am also a recent Masters graduate with my MSc in Computer Games Technology and a new media and technology consultant.

Currently, I am the founder and owner of Chamfered Technology, teacher at the local College (Sault College), Academic Specialist at Algoma University, and I am also a part-time faculty member at Algoma University with the Computer Science Department. I am currently teaching 4th year courses on Artificial Intelligence, Game AI and Distributed Systems. I have also worked with SSMIC and Miramar on building a Facebook Application for ProtoLaunch. ProtoLaunch is a gaming camp for highschool students to teach them how to build games. I have worked within Protolaunch as a mentor to the students in previous years.

I have experience in graphic design, programming and project management. I have a keen interest in gaming and that is why my PhD focus has been on gaming and education. I want to introduce gaming to younger students and create new ways of learning through videogames.

Prior to starting up Chamfered Technology, I traveled to Scotland with four Algoma University undergraduates to compete in a Gaming Competition called Dare to be Digital. Our team, Log2n, won an award for most innovative and creative game. Our game, Flux, created a gesture based game where music decided the gameplay. I had a dual role on the team, being graphic artist and programmer.

With my experience in design, programming and new media, I am also creating websites for companies using Web 2.0. If you want to get your business on the web using the latest tools at a low price, please contact Chamfered Technology.

ETC Publications

Educational Games Part III: Their ‘Educational’ Characteristics
Educational Games Part II: Using New Technologies in the Classroom
Educational Games Part I: A Way to Make Even Math Fun

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Transcript of Alexandra Wallace’s March 11 Video

Posted on April 3, 2008 by JimS

[The source for this transcript is the Angry Asian Man, 13 Mar. 2011. Click here for the linking article. This transcript was posted in ETCJ on 19 Mar. 2011.]

Okay, so here at UCLA it’s finals week.

So we know that I’m not the most politically correct person so don’t take this offensively. I don’t mean it toward any of my friends I mean it toward random people that I don’t even know in the library. So, you guys are not the problem.

The problem is these hordes of Asian people that UCLA accepts into our school every single year, which is fine. But if you’re going to come to UCLA then use American manners.

So it used to really bug me but it doesn’t bother me anymore the fact that all the Asian people that live in all the apartments around me — their moms and their brothers and their sisters and their grandmas and their grandpas and their cousins and everybody that they know that they’ve brought along from Asia with them – comes here on the weekends to do their laundry, buy their groceries and cook their food for the week. It’s seriously, without fail. You will always see old Asian people running around this apartment complex every weekend. That’s what they do. They don’t teach their kids to fend for themselves. You know what they don’t also teach them, is their manners.

Which brings me to my next point. Hi, in America we do not talk on our cell phones in the library. I swear every five minutes I will be — okay, not five minutes, say like fifteen minutes — I’ll be in like deep into my studying, into my political science theories and arguments and all that stuff, getting it all down, like typing away furiously, blah blah, blah, and then all of a sudden when I’m about to like reach an epiphany… Over here from somewhere, “Ooooh Ching Chong Ling Long Ting Tong, Ooohhhhh.”

Are you freaking kidding me? In the middle of finals week? So being the polite, nice American girl that my momma raised me to be, I kinda just gave him what anybody else would do that kinda like, [puts finger up to lips in a “shh” motion]. “You know it’s a library, like, we’re trying to study, thanks!” And then it’s the same thing five minutes later. But it’s somebody else, you know — I swear they’re going through their whole families, just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing. I mean I know, okay, that sounds horrible like I feel bad for all the people affected by the tsunami, but if you’re gonna go call your address book like you might as well go outside because if something is wrong you might really freak out if you’re in the library and everybody’s quiet like you seriously should go outside if you’re gonna do that.

So, thanks for listening, that was my rant. I just — even if you’re not Asian you really shouldn’t be on your cell phone in the library but I’ve just never seen that happen before so thank you for listening and have a nice day.

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Davin K. Kubota

Posted on March 15, 2008 by JimS

(Published 15 March 2020)

Davin K. Kubota is an Associate Professor of English within the English Discipline and the Languages, Linguistics, and Literature Department. Davin’s interests are feminism, Shakespeare, media literacy, rhetoric, esoteric shamanism, comic book analysis and sustainability.

List of ETCJ Publications:

Google Classroom to Transition to Online: A COVID-19 Response

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Call for Chapters, Articles . . .

Posted on March 11, 2008 by JimS

Please send your calls for chapters, articles, presentations, etc. to Jim Shimabukuro (jamess@hawaii.edu).

Harvard/Stanford Call for ‘Ideas for a Better Internet’ – Deadline April 15, 2011

Vernier: Thirty $10,000 Technology Grants – Deadline June 1st 2011 – Deadline June 1st, 2011

Call for Chapters: Classroom Experiences with Tech – Proposal Submission Deadline: April 30, 2011. extended to June 30, 2011

Lessig: The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge – Call for Subtitlers – No deadline

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