Kimon Keramidas

OK, I mentioned the Center for Digital Studies is hiring someone to...well...to be in charge of the Center for Digital Studies. Three people who want the job will visit our campus to meet people and have interviews and stuff. But they will also give talks that everyone can go to. It seems interesting to know who these people are since they will be the ones Directing the Center for Digital Studies, so they’ll be pretty important in all this digital stuff.

The first one to come is named Kimon Keramidas, and his website is here: http://bit.ly/12tjCLj.

You can see he runs the Digital Media Lab at the Bard Graduate Center in NY, which is cool, but then get this: his PhD is in...Theatre! Crazy! And now he does digital stuff? 

And he thinks about games in education! He wrote this http://bit.ly/X5yeOC called “What Games Have to Teach Us About Teaching and Learning: Game Design as a Model for Course and Curricular Development.” Not sure what that means except I want to take his class!

Anyway, anyone who wants can hear him talk on campus when he comes. The schedule I got says he’ll be discussing his vision for the Digital Studies Center. So find out what the digital technology, theatre, and games in class guy want the new Center on our campus to be like! Find out at 2:00pm on Thursday, Feb 14 in the Fine Arts building, Room 110.