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Teacher for a Year!
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Teacher for a Year!

It's finally official: I get to teach for a year!Teach Your Heart Out / Krissy.Venosdale I've had this post bottled up for a while now, waiting for the papers to...

New Template + Comments Work Again
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

New Template + Comments Work Again

Because someone brought it to my attention that comments weren't working anymore (and I had no idea how to fix them), I decided it was time for a new blog template...

Why Game Designers Should Understand Procedural Rhetoric
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Why Game Designers Should Understand Procedural Rhetoric

I am sometimes asked why I think stories in games need to improve.  Considering I'm studying nonlinear stories in games for my PhD project, I was for a long time...

Technical + Creative
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Technical + Creative

It's amazing how many people fail to realize that computing can be a creative field.  In fact, in many cases, it has to be! For example, it makes no sense for me...

A Forty Minute Tour of CS Education With Mark Guzdial
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

A Forty Minute Tour of CS Education With Mark Guzdial

Mark Guzdial is one of the big names in computer science education.  A couple of months ago, he spoke at the GVU Brown Bag Seminar with a talk entitled What We. ...

Unboxing GoldieBlox
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Unboxing GoldieBlox

Way back when, I missed out on the Roominate Kickstarter campaign, and I regretted it afterwards. So when GoldieBlox was proposed, I jumped on it.  Plus, $30 to...

Working With Google Spreadsheets Data Directly
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Working With Google Spreadsheets Data Directly

On Wednesday I talked about assigning numbers to my princess-and-dragon story.  I have all my data in an easily parsable format in a Google Spreadsheet.  I decided...

Princesses, Dragons, and Assigning Numbers to Stories
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Princesses, Dragons, and Assigning Numbers to Stories

I've been working on a prototype story for my thesis project ("Coherent Emergent Stories").  Although I have a couple of stories on the go (such as the one I made...

Feynlabs Has the Right Idea: Start With CS Concepts
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Feynlabs Has the Right Idea: Start With CS Concepts

I received an email from Lee Omar of UK-based Feynlabs this morning.  It opened with the following:Feynlabs believes that current IT teaching in schools which is...

Review / Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Review / Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming

There are many resources out there for Python, but I've recently had the opportunity to enjoy a fully colour printed book on the topic.  Sure, it's called Python...

Stories and Games at GRAND 2013
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Stories and Games at GRAND 2013

Last week, I attended the annual meeting of the GRAND (Graphics, Animation, and New Media) research network, held in Toronto.  Although the research and discussion...

In Which I Am Tempted to Move to California
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

In Which I Am Tempted to Move to California

Blog posts have been sparse lately: I have been traveling.  Last week I spent five days in Palo Alto, California.  The visit was primarily for the Anita Borg Institute...

My Beautiful GRAND Conference Poster
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

My Beautiful GRAND Conference Poster

I'm a strong believer in creating conference posters that look good.  If they have a striking resemblance to printed papers, in my opinion something has gone really...

Motherhood, Tech, and Leaning In With Marissa Mayer
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Motherhood, Tech, and Leaning In With Marissa Mayer

Recently, I happened to start looking at some of the stories featured on the new Lean In website and came across Marissa Mayer's.  For all the interest and controversy...

Got What it Takes to Be a Technical Co-founder? Here's an Opportunity for You!
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Got What it Takes to Be a Technical Co-founder? Here's an Opportunity for You!

Two recent Y Combinator graduates contacted me recently in an effort to recruit a female technical co-founder for their startup.  Although any awesome engineers...

Go Code Girl a Great Success!
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Go Code Girl a Great Success!

On Saturday the University of Ottawa held its inaugural Go Code Girl event.  I designed the workshop's curriculum and taught the English section for the day.  I...

When is Augmented Reality the Right Choice?
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

When is Augmented Reality the Right Choice?

Last fall, we published a paper about augmented reality, cognitive theories, and learning. I previously wrote about the design advantages of AR; these give insight...

Design Advantages of Augmented Reality
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Design Advantages of Augmented Reality

Last fall, we published a paper about augmented reality, cognitive theories, and learning.  One of the tasks of the work was to specifically define what the design...

The Best Posts of All Time
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

The Best Posts of All Time

I love how much easier it is to see statistics on blog post views with the most recent Blogger redesign.  While these (probably?) don't account for views by RSS...

Upcoming Eye Surgery
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Upcoming Eye Surgery

I'll be out of commission for the next little while as I embark on my second of two eye surgeries.  I have a corneal disease called keratoconus, which makes the...
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