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Presentation: Creating a CUNY-wide approach towards Digital Media Programs

Sunday, December 4th, 2011 Posted in ePortfolio, LaGuardia, New Media, Publications & Presentations, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »

The above video was from a presentation and panel discussion held at John Jay College's 10th Annual City University of New York (CUNY) IT Conference. The emerging nature of Digital Media has challenged the ability of universities to adapt to ...

LaGuardia Event: Ryan Charles speaks

Thursday, November 10th, 2011 Posted in LaGuardia, New Media, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »

Over the past few months I have been working with Janice Karlen, a colleague of mine from the LaGuardia Business and Technology Department, to arrange for a guest speaker to come in and speak to our students. Janice thought it ...

My new article on student motivation – HETS Online Journal

Friday, March 25th, 2011 Posted in Digital Video, ePortfolio, Gaming, LaGuardia, New Media, Publications & Presentations, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »

I wanted to share with you a recently published article on the topic of the student motivation that I authored. The title of the piece is "Motivating at Risk African Americans and Hispanics Through the Study of ...

Old LaGuardia New Media Student Videos

Friday, February 11th, 2011 Posted in Digital Video, LaGuardia, New Media, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »

I was backing up a few of my old hard drives and came across some old student work that I had forgotten. The following video was shot by some of my New Media Technology students back in 2008. The students ...

Training sir! What kind of training??? Wooooordpress training sir!!

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 Posted in New Media, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »

Over the winter term I took a two day advanced course in Wordpress Theme customization at Noble Desktop. For all of the the non techies, Wordpress is a popular open source content management system used by bloggers and web site ...

Mayor’s office: Futures in Film and New Media

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 Posted in Digital Video, LaGuardia, New Media, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »

Representatives from the Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting came to speak to the students at LaGuardia. The event was sponsored by the LaGuardia Media Studies and New Media Technology programs. The visitors from Mayor Bloomberg's office talked about ...

Mr. Richardson, we’re ready for your closeup.

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Digital Video, LaGuardia, New Media, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »

One of the benefits of being a professor is that you get to see how your students grow and develop over time. You are able to watch them start off as raw and untrained media enthusiasts and hopefully evolve into ...

Summer of Code

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in LaGuardia, New Media, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »

It has been a long time since I have actually sat inside of a formal classroom as a student. I spend most of my time on the other side of the fence. However this summer has helped me better understand ...

Publication Seminar

Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in ePortfolio, LaGuardia, Publications & Presentations, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »

Today I attended a workshop at LaGuardia designed to help junior faculty, like myself, identify greater opportunities to publish. The workshop was led by Dr. Jane Johansen of the University of Southern Indiana. Dr. Johansen is a very dynamic speaker ...

Go Trek Yourself

Sunday, April 12th, 2009 Posted in Comics and Sci-Fi, Entertainment, Lifestyle, New Media, Sports and Fitness, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »

This is either one of the funniest, or the creepiest, things I have seen on the web in awhile. You got a black vulcan spitting the lyrics of Rakim in an offbeat monotone fashion. Yes I realize that I am ...