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Patrick McKercher |
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Patrick McKercher teaches in the Writing Program at the University of California Santa Cruz. He did his doctoral work on the nature and use of metaphor in the Rhetoric and Linguistics program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He has extensive outreach experience and worked on integrating digital technology into K-16 education. In particular, he has researched the educational potential of virtual worlds from time of text-based MUDs/MOOs to 3D in the present. More recently, he has been project manager for James Burke's Knowledge (Web K-Web.org), an open source collaborative and immersive knowledge navigation tool, as well as helped create the College 8 Wiki. In addition, he has worked on documentaries shown on public broadcasting such as ReConnections and So My Grandchildren Will Know. |
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