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Diversity Statement

I have been developing a personal diversity statement. Here is what I have so far: My experience advancing diversity has been in my teaching. When I taught middle school and high school, I taught units that focused on books that address subjects such as the Holocaust (Night), slavery (Frederick Douglass), and sexual violence (Speak). Helping…

Transmediation

The process of transmediation is to translate something from one sign system to another sign system. I created Plugging-Into the Threshold of the Assemblage as I read, contemplated, and sketched what I believed embodied the concepts I encountered in Chapter 1 of Jackson and Mazzei’s (2012) Thinking with Theory for Qualitative Research. The authors challenge…

What’s on my desk…

I spend more and more time at my desk these days, doing everything from writing to painting to working on this blog. Because of this, my workspace is constantly changing and a tornado of random items is always at the verge of taking over. Holding the clutter at bay is challenging, so I prefer to…

The Short Story…

Hi, I’m Kristen! Previously a full-time multimedia artist, I became a language teacher in 2016 and began using my artistic abilities in conjunction with my language skills to help others embrace language learning. Now as an experienced teacher and new academic, I love writing about cutting-edge technologies like virtual worlds, MMORPGs, virtual reality accessories, and augmented reality software.

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