http://kevinkee.ca Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, Brock University Wed, 09 May 2012 17:33:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My research is focused on how we can use interactive media to better communicate history. I’ve been fortunate to work with different organizations and people dedicated to improving K-12 history, but don’t spend a lot of time in schools.  So when my son’s Grade 7 history teacher asked me to speak to his class about [...]]]> http://kevinkee.ca/niagara-1812/youre-teaching-grade-7-history/ I blog weekly at the Ontario Augmented Reality Network. Check out my new dispatches from Augmented Reality Event 2012 in sunny Santa Clara.]]> http://kevinkee.ca/oarn/dispatches-for-augmented-reality-event-2012/ In April 2010 I organized “Pastplay” (or “Playing with Technology in History”, as we called it before Bethany Nowviskie came up with a much better name), with the financial support of the The History Education Network / Histoire et éducation en réseau (THEN/HiER). It was the most rewarding two days of my career. Much of [...]]]> http://kevinkee.ca/pastplay/fish-on-dh/ Thanks to Bethany Nowviskie (@nowviskie), I just read “No More Plan B – A Very Modest Proposal for Graduate Programs in History”, by Anthony Grafton, the president of the American Historical Association, and Jim Grossman, the AHA’s executive director. In a nutshell, Grafton and Grossman encourage us to get beyond the post-PhD binary of “tenure [...]]]> http://kevinkee.ca/teachinglearning/no-more-plan-b/ Anne-Marie was profiled in a Globe and Mail insert today (it came out on the Web on Saturday). Here’s how this goes: I drag my poor wife from her great job in Montreal to a new place and no job, and…]]> http://kevinkee.ca/uncategorized/anne-marie-is-a-woman-of-distinction/ The Ontario Augmented Reality Network (OARN), which I’ve started with funding from the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), and in partnership with some great people, universities, organizations, and business, had its coming-out party at the OARN-organized, and OMDC-sponsored Interacting with Augmented Reality Conference on June 14 at Brock University. Thanks to all of our partners [...]]]> http://kevinkee.ca/uncategorized/interacting-with-augmented-reality/ Several nights ago, far past my bed time, I read that: “scientists say nighttime electronics are interfering with Americans’ ability to get a good night’s sleep“. “They’re right,” I thought, and duly put my iPad down. The next morning, I woke up to a headline claiming that: “the iPad 2′s wealth of new features is [...]]]> http://kevinkee.ca/productivity/giving-away-an-ipad/ The Ontario Media Development Corporation has just announced the 2011 Entertainment and Creative Cluster Partnerships Fund awards. The project that I lead – the Ontario Augmented Reality Network – was awarded $220,000 (our total budget is $360,000). The complete list of awards can be found here. OARN brings together universities, private-sector developers, cultural agencies, trade [...]]]> http://kevinkee.ca/oarn/the-ontario-augmented-reality-network/ Our Niagara 1812 historic tour iPhone applications were profiled in the Globe and Mail today (or page A11 if you read the paper version). The apps can be found at our iHistory Tours Web site.]]> http://kevinkee.ca/niagara-1812/niagara-1812-in-the-globe-and-mail/ My company recently posted its first iPhone quest-tour to the iTunes store – Niagara 1812: Return of the Fenian Shadow. This project was conceived in my lab at Brock University, and developed in partnership with the Niagara Interactive Media Generator. Thanks to everyone who made it happen. A new tour, built on the same engine, [...]]]> http://kevinkee.ca/niagara-1812/niagara-1812-in-the-itunes-store/