Making WebVR storytelling easy and accessible for classroom use For the past year, I’ve been working on an NSF-funded project focused on helping 5th grade students and educators create immersive, place-based stories about their countries’ food and culture in virtual reality. As part of that work, I developed a tool called the 360 Hotspot Creator with the…
I set up this blog about a year and change ago. My thinking about it was the same as when I set up my first blog back in around 2005. Back then, I had started doing some things that got media attention, and I wanted to have more agency about my own story from my…
The 86th Peabody Awards ceremony is happening tonight at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. As a member of the Interactive and Immersive jury, I had a role in selecting this year’s nominees and winners, as each one is decided by a unanimous vote of the jury. It’s not always easy to track down…
For the last year, I’ve been privileged to be a part of the Online News Association’s AI Innovator Collaborative. It’s a group of people working in journalism, including journalism education, who are actively experimenting with the responsible and ethical use of AI in the context of news. While AI + Journalism may sound like something…