GoThere (New Media Society Project)
The New Media Society at the University of Georgia, working with Young Vines, LLC., has created a mobile travel app that connects cool hosts with fun travelers. We call it GoThere, and this video is our application to the British Airways Face of Opportunity contest. The video was shot by the team, and edited by me. Thanks to Ed O’Meara for all of the help, and to the New Media Institute for equipment! Our video: Highlights from the British Airways Face-To-Face Event in New York and...
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Tugg: A Social, Mobile Game to Fight Childhood Obesity
Wouldn’t it be cool if we could create a mobile game to fight childhood obesity? In the New Media Institute at the University of Georgia, we spent the Spring of 2010 tackling just that question. Our game, Tugg, utilizes a blend of mobile heart monitoring technology and social gaming to pit teams of kids against each other in virtual games of tug-o-war. The only way for kids to win is by literally raising their heart rate, thereby reducing the risk for and effects of childhood obesity in a...
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A Digital Education: My Adventure in the Mountains of Costa Rice
**Note: Images and Videos are forthcoming, they’ve been lost in the transition to this new site** Two years ago, Emuel Aldridge, a professor in the University of Georgia New Media Institute, showed me a video of the brand new XO Laptops from the OneLaptopPerChild campaign. These $100 laptops were unlike anything I had seen before, obviously made for children to use in the most rural of settings. I was hooked. I feel very strongly that furthering the digital education of children in...
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ALPS: The Assisted Living Picture Service
A few years ago I was named a Mobile Media Scholar and had the chance to work with four incredibly talented NMI students on a special assignment from Dr. Shamp himself: ALPS. The Assisted Living Picture Service is a device that allows residents in an Assisted Living Facility to view and show off photos of their friends and family with just the wireless swipe of a card or bracelet. I never got a chance to post pictures or video of the actual device, but I recently took some footage with Matti...
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New Media Update (podcast)
One year after our attempted podcast NMI Nation, Zack Goulet and I created a more formal (yet still fun!) podcast called New Media Update which officially represented the program we both cared deeply about. New Media Update, or NMU, focused on highlighting the cool things that were happening within the New Media Institute at UGA. The show ran from February 2009 to April 2009. Check out the playlist below to watch all of the episodes of...
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I'm a new dad living in Atlanta, Georgia. I try my best to creatively leverage new media technology, solve complex problems, and generally create value. I also sing and make music.