The past 1.5 years, I have been working with a group of graduate students (Michael Gubbels, Jason Yip, Jinyoung Kim) to explore the design of social media tools for children’s collaborative science inquiry. The result of this project is SINQ, a social media tool for Scientific INQuiry, where we leverage features seen in popular tools like Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram to guide children to practice inquiry skills.

I’m happy to announce that our prototype was accepted to the Social Media Expo at the iConference 2013, supported by Microsoft Research (link here for more info). Check out the SINQ video, which will be shown at the Expo.

Dr. Brian Butler and I just had a workshop paper accepted to CSCW 2013, for the CSCW and Education Workshop. The paper forwards an ecological perspective to studying the creation and implementation of open education.

I think as more online, open education platforms become the norm, these questions – of how do learning communities get created, implemented, and sustained over time? – will become more important to understand. Check out a draft of the paper here: [PDF]

My paper with Brian Butler and student Cindy Weng was accepted to HICSS 2013 in the Learning Analytics and Networked Learning track.  In the paper, we examine log data from an open MOOC platform, the Peer 2 Peer University, to examine what factors are related to increased participation in this open education setting. Check out the paper here: :LINK

My paper on youth perspectives on remix behavior was given the Best Information Behavior Paper Award at ASIS&T 2012.  The paper was authored with Mega Subramaniam, Allison Druin, Ken Fleischmann and students Amanda Waugh and Greg Walsh.  Check out the paper here: LINK

Happy to announce that my paper with colleagues, Mega Subramaniam, Allison Druin, Ken Fleischmann and students Amanda Waugh and Greg Walsh was accepted to ASIS&T 2012.  Check out the paper here: LINK