At the next New Media Lab general meeting two doctoral students will demonstrate advances they’ve made on their already well-developed digital projects.

Tuesday OCT 13 — 12:30–2PM — NML, room 7388.01

Bijan Kimiagar will talk about how he used ATLAS.ti to analyze his visual data for Organizing Ourselves. The goal of this project is to document and analyze the organizational structures and decision-making processes of a diverse sample of children’s membership groups from around the world. The purpose is to identify different types and qualities of children’s membership groups and how each affords different opportunities for children to develop and exercise their citizenship and capacities for self-governance in groups.

Kevin Ambrose will discuss his use of Moodle as a tool for teaching with his Second Life project. Virtually Augmented Social Skills Training is an environment to teach social skills to individuals with high functioning autism. The use of a virtual environment is hypothesized to enhance the intervention's generalization to new settings and each participant's understanding of when and how to apply social skills. This project will culminate in the construction of a virtual environment in Second Life™ as part of the doctoral dissertation project.

Also, please mark your calendars for the November 5^th and December 1^st general meetings!