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I'm laid back, sometimes too much so.
I love to laugh and be outdoors, but don't do either enough :)
I'm currently a PhD candidate at Michigan State University in Educational Psychology and Technology.

I am interested in Education
Technology
Gaming. My favorite music are U2,REM,DMB,Counting Crows,any Blues,and most Jazz. Movies: Dark Knight,Star Wars,Ghandi,Crash,Lord of the Rings. TV: X-Files,Star Trek Next Generation. Books: Lord of the Rings,House Of Sand And Fog,Stephen King,Toni Morrison,Thoreau,Emerson,comics :). My Heros are Ghandi,MLK,Thoreau.

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What is in a game? Testing the effectiveness of storylines in an MMORPG for Language Learning | CEP 955 on 2009-11-18
- communicative activity
- framed by situative theories of learning
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- - make them more effective
    Greg Casperson on 2009-11-18
    
    Are they more effective?
  - might not necessarily what
    Greg Casperson on 2009-11-18
    
    ?
  - learn new things in the Vygotskyian sense
    Greg Casperson on 2009-11-18
    
    what sense is that?
  - Two leading councils, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Council of Europe with their Common European Framework
    Greg Casperson on 2009-11-18
    
    missing something here
Short Proposal Round II | CEP 955 on 2009-11-18
- What remains unknown however is how the Internet and new media are intersecting with adolescents' academic lives and whether teens are using the Internet and new media to engage in informal, self-directed and incidental learning
  - Greg Casperson on 2009-11-18
    
    good transition
- The significance of this study lies in the rich description of informal, self-directed, and incidental learning of teenagers on the Internet.
  - Greg Casperson on 2009-11-18
    
    where is this rich description coming from? I probably just missed it but . . .
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- - talking
    Greg Casperson on 2009-11-18
    
    talk
  - se
    lf-directed and incidental learning online?
  - the same
    Greg Casperson on 2009-11-18
    
    compared to
Get Informed | Project Blue on 2009-10-29
World's major rivers drying up | COSMOS magazine on 2009-10-29
- Many of the developing world's largest rivers are drying up because of climate change, threatening water supplies in some of the most populous places on Earth, say scientists.
- A third of these had registered a change in flow and most of them, including the Niger in West Africa, the Ganges in South Asia and the Yellow River in China, were drier.
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- - Reduced run-off is increasing the pressure on freshwater resources in much of the world, especially with more demand for water as population increases.
City Brights: Peter Gleick : Global Water Crisis on 2009-10-29
- addressing water problems in the face of population growth comes down to three choices: (1) increase the water supply, (2) decrease the water demand per person, and (3) change the number of people. We must do all three, in the right way.
- Over the past 100 years, our water policy has focused on (1) -- expand supply
Water.org » Water Facts on 2009-10-29
- Nearly one billion people lack access to safe water and 2.5 billion do not have improved sanitation. The health and economic impacts are staggering.
- Every day, thousands of people die from lack of access to clean water. The safe water issue is intimately linked to hygiene education and proper sanitation, which is why we take an integrated approach to bringing safe water to the world’s poor.
Water crisis looms unless we understand freshwater cycles | COSMOS magazine on 2009-10-29
- SYDNEY, 25 August 2006
- "I think the world should pay more attention to the water scarcity, which is not necessarily driven by physical water shortages but by social issues,
  - Greg Casperson on 2009-10-29
    
    Social issues primary concern
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- - main focus of preserving global renewable freshwater resources should be the monitoring of freshwater cycles
  - Water flow is considered the most important measure of water resources, but the speed of water circulation is crucial.
  - The loss is also much less than developing countries, and as a result, developed countries have capability to use more water effectively than other parts of the world even if climatic conditions are similar
    Greg Casperson on 2009-10-29
    
    underdeveloped countries most at risk
  - lobal warming will accelerate the water cycle. Precipitation will increase and therefore runoff and river discharge will be increased, thus available freshwater resources will be increased on a macro scale
The Contact Hypothesis Reconsidered: Interacting via the Internet on 2009-10-26
- claiming that true acquaintance lessens
  prejudice
- It
  is through getting to know the other that people may be able to
  break down their stereotypes of him or her.
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- - That is,
    initial assumptions about the other that arise from the (negative)
    stereotypes associated with his or her group are replaced by more
    positive perceptions of the individual. Second, these new positive
    associations with the individual will become extended to that
    individual's group as a whole, thus ameliorating negative attitudes
    toward the group.
  - four key conditions for such a
    meeting: equal-group status within the situation; common goals;
    intergroup cooperation; and institutional support
  - voluntary participation and intimate contact
  - he evidence is less clear regarding a global
    attitude change toward the group,
  - do
    not find that the positive attitude toward the individual translates
    into a more positive attitude toward the group nor into more
    positive behavior toward other individual group members (see
    Hewstone & Brown, 198
  - Mere contact can be a
    sufficient condition for bias reduction that is lasting and
    generalizes beyond the individuals to their larger group.
    Importantly, however, each of Allport's conditions further enhances
    the bias-reducing effects of mere contact and thus the more
    conditions that are co-present, the more likely a successful and
    lasting outcome will be achieved.
  - In other words, if the individual is perceived
    only as an individual rather than also as a representative member of
    his or her group, then any attitude change will remain
    target-specific.
  - participants need to be seen
    as representatives of their group so that the (out)group identity is
    highly salien
  - Importantly, in an online environment one can hit two birds with one
    stone; one can heighten the perception of the individual members as
    representative of their disparate groups while simultaneously
    fostering feelings of kinship and attachment to the "new
    group" composed of all members taking part in the exercise.
    There are a number of means by which the first can be achieved.
  - how one presents oneself.
    Greg Casperson on 2009-10-26
    
    these 4 do not really address how we then communicate more with family/friends online as well. Could it be affordances of the communicating medium--asynchronous, easily 1 to 1 and/or 1 to many
Reference Library - TPCK on 2009-09-30
- Figg, C. & Jaipal, K. (2009). Unpacking TPACK: TPK Characteristics Supporting Successful Implementation. In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (pp. 4069-4073). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/31295.
  (Conference Presentation)
- Graham, C., Cox, S. & Velasquez, A. (2009). Teaching and Measuring TPACK Development in Two Preservice Teacher Preparation Programs. In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (pp. 4081-4086). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/31297.
  (Conference Presentation)
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- - Irving, K. (2009). Preservice science teachers' use of educational technology in student teaching. Journal of Computers in Mathematics & Science Teaching, 28(1), 45-70.
  - Shin, T., Koehler, M.J., Mishra, P. Schmidt, D., Baran, E., & Thompson, A.,(2009, March). Changing technological pedagogical content knowledge (tpack) through course experiences. Paper presented at the 2009 International Conference of the Society for the Information and Technology & Teacher Education. March 2-6, Charleston, South Carolina. (paper , presentation)
    (Conference Presentation)
Measurement Error on 2009-09-30
- Isn't it possible that some
  errors are systematic, that they hold across most or all of the members of a group?

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