1. My published dissertation in multiple formats (PDF only for now)
2. My 1997-2008 articles for TCEA’s TechEdge magazine
3. My 1992-93 Fulbright research on Latin American security issues
4. My published books and book chapters

In addition, I’ll try and include electronic versions of other articles I’ve written which are listed on my vitae if I have or can obtain permission to digitally redistribute those works.

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Book Description

We need to play with media to become more effective communicators. This book was written to inspire and empower you, as a creative person, to expand your personal senses of digital literacy and digital agency as a multimedia communicator. As you learn to play with digital text, images, audio and video, you will communicate more creatively and flexibly with a wider variety of options. Although written primarily for educators, anyone who is interested in learning more about digital communication will learn something new from this book. As children, we learn to progressively make sense of our confusing world through play. The same dynamics apply to us as adults communicating with new and different media forms.

iPad (enhanced ePUB) ISBN-13: 9780983104810
Amazon Kindle ISBN-13: 9780983104827
Standard ePUB ISBN-13: 9780983104810
Paperback ISBN-13: 9780983104834

Related Resources

1. playingwithmedia.com – book blog
2. share.playingwithmedia.com – student media examples
3. maps.playingwithmedia.com – Mapping Media to the Common Core
4. learn.playingwithmedia.com – workshop, video tutorial and videoconference resources
5. ebooks.playingwithmedia.com – enhanced ebook examples

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The introduction reads:

One of the most famous quotations in the history of the United States was stated by President John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address, when he encouraged all Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” In the years which followed Kennedy’s inauguration, as the United States became more deeply involved in the war in Indochina, many Americans answered their nation’s call to duty. Inevitably, many of the men who served the United States in Southeast Asia became prisoners of war (POWs). Although 591 American POWs were repatriated to the United States in February 1973, some POWs were left behind (Tighe Report 33). The failure of the U.S. government to secure the return of American servicemen remaining in captivity in Southeast Asia after February 1973 is a continuing violation of a national ethic that has developed historically, that holds “the war is not over until all the men are back.” American servicemen certainly went to fight in Southeast Asia prepared to suffer hardship in battle, but they could not have been prepared to be abandoned by the country that sent them there. The betrayal of American POWs in Southeast Asia is one of the darkest pages of American history yet written, and suggests that the conscience of our nation has been violated in addition to the implicit promise made to U.S. servicemen by the government to bring them all home at the end of the war.