Mutilated Checkerboard Game Post Mortem

At the start of the project I was very interested in teaching the “creative process” using games. Starting the semester I had no idea where to begin or what the creative process really was, at least in a demystified enough way that could then be translated in the logic rule structure of a game. At [...]

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Story Project

Here are the three stories for the creativity project.  The first story is with the teachers, the second story is with eighth grade students, and the final story involves two of my artistic friends.  I hope you enjoy them. Group One Story: Teachers Somewhere in the distance, Cecilia heard a faint laugh.  She so often [...]

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Final Project Presentation clip

http://www.divshare.com/download/11210702-fa9

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Final Project Podcast

http://www.divshare.com/download/10956137-8c8

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Ideas for Final Project…Would love to get feedback.

Happy President’s Day class. I hope everyone is well and that their electricity was not out this past week. I have given some thought on the final project and I have come up with three different possibilities. I would love to get any feedback. Possibility 1 (my least fav, but could still be interesting) I [...]

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Science, Money & Policy

Knowledge is the number one commodity in a post-industrial society. Thus, it is only natural that the way knowledge is obtained and how it is applied would become big business under this circumstance. Almost every major university traverses the tricky arena of intellectual property and supports the entrepreneurial endeavors of their faculty, students and staff [...]

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Paper Topic: The Dover Decision in Philosophical Perspective

Abstract In 1989 a contentious textbook entitled Of Pandas and People was published by the Foundation for Thought and Ethics, a Christian non-profit organization based in Richardson, Texas.  The authors of the book, Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon, have some training in scientific fields (Davis – zoology; Kenyon – biophysics) and are the Professor [...]

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Research Proposal: Jennifer Culver

Advances in technology raise concerns about power and the ability to distinguish what is “real.”

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William Moulton Marston: Educational and Professional Background

Here’s some background information for my project on the psychology of William Moulton Marston. Who Was William Moulton Marston? Little remembered today in the halls of psychology departments, William Moulton Marston (b. 1893 – d. 1947) was in his time very widely known to the American public. Marston was by turns an academic psychologist and [...]

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Science, Values, and Popular Culture in the Psychology of William Moulton Marston

…Despite the fact that his theories had little impact on the subsequent development of the field of psychology, Marston’s work is instructive in several ways for philosophers of science and philosophers of psychology. Besides being a highly interesting early attempt to draw conclusions about emotions and cognition on the basis of work in neuroscience, it is an interesting case study in the relation between science and values…

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