Although most of my research has been focused on Twitter lately, I still have a foot in games and education, and some of my work there with Matt Koehler, Brian Arnold, Liz Owens Boltz, and George P. Burdell has just been published as online-first in Simulation & Gaming. One of the main talking points for …
I few months ago, I shared some of the thoughts I had shared at a professional development day at a school here in Michigan. I intentionally left out part of the presentation with the intention of coming back to it later, which I never did. Last week, I dusted off those thoughts and shared an …
This episode of Spencer Writes in the Library took place Tuesday, November 11th around 2:00pm. The Spot Where am I working today? I am on the fourth floor of the east wing of the MSU library. I am somewhere along the north wall of the building, but I got really turned around today, almost losing …
This episode of Spencer Writes in the Library took place Saturday, September 20th around 1:00pm. The Spot Where am I working today? Today, I’m on the second floor of the west wing. I’ve worked in a couple of the desks up in this area, but I’m trying out a table for the first time. What’s …
This episode of Spencer Writes in the Library took place Monday, September 1st around 1:00pm The Spot Where am I working today? I am in the basement of the west wing, at one of the group tables on the far west side of the floor. What’s a perk of this spot? Group work and a …
For a blogger presumably focused on education, I’ve written a fairly large number of posts that touch on civil wars and military interventions. While it’s depressing that the world keeps giving me new events that I could work into posts, that sober fact is also a reminder of why I think this subject ought to …
This episode of Spencer Writes in the Library took place on Friday, July 11th around 10:30am. The Spot Where am I working today? The desks near the south-east corner of the first floor, right by the south-east stairwell. What’s a perk of this spot? It’s a desk with a view – my regular working spot …