Facebook can be more than a way to connect with friends — it also can be a valuable research and learning tool, according to one Kansas State University professor. Mick Charney, associate professor of architecture, has been advocating Facebook as a way to collaborate in the classroom. As the recently appointed coordinator of K-State’s Faculty [...]
Michael Wesch has earned many accolades for his expertise and creativity in the use of digital technology to enhance student learning. He’s received national professor of the year honors, been named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic, and has been dubbed “the explainer” by Wired magazine. Now the associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas [...]
From Michael Wesch, K-State assistant professor of anthropology: “What you see in the video is 100 students coming together, pooling their money, and then running all over campus using that money to perform random acts of kindness for other students. It is simply a way of acting out what K-State Proud really does.” Read his [...]
A study by three Kansas State University graduate students finds that the 18- to 24-year-old demographic became more politically active during the 2008 U.S. election season through the use of new media, but that the young adults were not necessarily more knowledgeable about politics. The K-State study examined young adults’ media consumption and the effects [...]
If you watched the No. 4 movie in the country in early May, you didn’t see it at the local cineplex but rather on your computer screen. “The Hunt for Gollum,” created by volunteers for about $5,000, had 1.3 million viewers in the first week, topped only by “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” “Star Trek” and a [...]
A mysterious island that moves through time. Travelers in search of answers. It sounds something like the science fiction television show “Lost,” but it also describes a new approach to teaching earth sciences to high school students in Kansas City, Mo. Iris Totten, an associate professor of geology at Kansas State University, and Molly Davies, [...]
Students in Elizabeth Barrett’s convention and event management course put together a launch party for Kansas State University’s recently renamed department of hospitality management and dietetics. They procured a location, catering, flowers and promotional fliers — all in Second Life. Barrett used the virtual world to not only teach the class, but also to teach [...]