Projects

Here’s a link to my academic areas of work.

Transmedia Indiana
In 2010, Professors Jennifer George-Palilonis and I received a Provost Immersive Learning grant for Transmedia Indiana, a 50-student, year-long project to create a fictionalized story using real-world objects from the Indiana State Museum.

Along with the digital story, the group will also construct a non-fiction, historically-accurate website using the museum’s artifacts. You can check out the entire project here.

The Invictus Writers
In 2010, I gathered ten students together to work on a book project. I helped them create a writer’s group, and they set about working on personal essays throughout the school year. The goal: publish a book by the end of the year. You can follow their progress here: The Invictus Writers or check out the Facebook Page.

The Emerging Classoom
2009-2011

The digital age has changed the way we interact with information. Collaboration is easier today than ever before. Geographic and time barriers have broken down. We can think better today. This is my exploration of what that means for the modern student…and the modern teacher.

Here’s a lecture I gave on The Wiki Classroom for my colleagues in the College of Communication, Information, and Media.

Here is an 11-minute explanation of how Wikis can be used within a classroom to foster discussion.

Here is a short video explaining how I use Google Documents to give Collective Wisdom tests in my classroom.

The AEJMC’s Tech Meme
Tech Meme
2009-2011

The business of journalism faces a plethora of difficult questions as it transitions from a print-centric world into the networked, digital age. But the answers to many of the most pressing questions — how to build business models, how to build an audience — have been worked out by those industries that have already navigated this road. In Tech Meme, Ball State University Assistant Professor Brad King discusses the lessons journalists can learn by examining the historical convergence of technology, society and media.

• Managing Online Communities: What Computer Games Can Teach Journalists
• Why Digital Rights Management Won’t Save the News
• Misdiagnosed: Why Newspapers Will Build Bad Business Models

The Emerging Media Initiative Fellowship
The EMI Fellowship website
2009-2011

Check out Part 1 of my interview with the BSU Center for Media Design

Check out Part 2 of my interview with the BSU Center for Media Design

The Object Remix
The project website
Academic Year 2009-2010
Muncie, Indiana

The idea of this project was to examine what it would take to create a narrative from materials found on the Web, and understand how modern copyright law may inhibit creativity in the digital age.

The Soho Theater Distributed Storytelling Project
The Project Notes: interactive PDF or interactive SWF
July 2010
London, England

This summer I had the chance to spend two weeks teaching playwrights, artists and actors how to create an interactive story that blends real life and cyberspace with The Soho Theater in London. Throughout the two weeks, we examined different groups doing this work. However, the bulk of our time was spent crafting stories and working through how those stories would look in real life.

ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
The Social Media Team
Tuesday Oct 20 – Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009
Bunker Hill, Ind

Four faculty members and 40 students ran the social media operation for Hallmark Homes, an Indiana builder contracted by ABC’s Extreme Makeover television program. Throughout seven days, the teams created audio, video, text and images, highlighting the contractors, volunteers and crowds who gathered to participate in the 7-day build.

Read more about the event here.

Buy the book we created after the event.

Check out my interview with GoGladiator TV

Check out my blog post, Extreme Social Media, and my video for the AEJMC