Growing up in the suburbs of Houston, I didn’t really encounter a lot of people who were homeless. After moving to Austin to begin my academic studies, I became much more exposed to this section of the community’s demographic. It’s almost impossible to walk around without passing by someone who...
Wearables Lesson Plan: Yelp
Yelp is a virtual marketplace that has been shaping our spatial orientation for many years, since it was founded in 2004 and has increasingly expanded worldwide since 2009. Despite its vast impact on our daily life, its digital rhetoric has hardly been researched and is usually taken for granted without...
Visualizing Data with Google Maps
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Cool Tools: Sound Mapping
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Digital Pedagogy Showcase: Google Tours in the Writing Classroom
At the DWRL's 2016 Spring Digital Pedagogy Showcase, the Augmented Reality Research Group showed attendees how to design assignments and lesson plans using Google Tours. (more…)
Augmented Reality and Smartphones: Friends or Foes?
Pardon the spatial-rhetorics wordplay here, but I am increasingly getting the sense that the topic at the center of this locative media research group—augmented reality—feels simultaneously like unfamiliar and familiar territory. I have spent a substantial amount of time researching and reflecting on locative media, especially thanks to my time...
Assignment Spotlight: TimeMapper
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