SABMIT
I’m working on a Simple Agent-Based Modeling Internet Toolkit. The goal of this project is to create a suite of Free open-source web-based tools for creating agent-based models. I am using open HTML5 technologies (including Workers, Canvas, and WebSockets) to allow for in-browser programming of agent-behaviors (in order to lower barriers to modeling, SABMIT will support a range of languages, textual and visual, declarative and imperative) and agent-state migration between browsers (to allow for more larger and more interactive simulations). This is very much a work in progress. Source code is on GitHub.
Annotorium
I am working with Boris Goldowski of CAST and Phillip Herman from the Center for Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh (where I was a visiting assistant professor) to create high-quality versions of the web-based annotation and annotation-visualization tools I created as part of my dissertation. The finished tools will be available shortly as Free Open Source Software.
UPrep
While a visiting assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Urban Education (CUE), I led the center’s research and development efforts around technology and learning, the focus of which was Pittsburgh Milliones University Prep 6-12, a new urban public high school created in partnership by CUE and the Pittsburgh Public Schools. In addition to leading CUE’s technology program, I co-led extensive teacher professional development with content-area faculty from Pitt.
SPACE
SPACE is a suite of web-based project-based learning planning, management, and assessment tools for students and teachers. SPACE has been used in schools (the University of Chicago Charter Schools) and to support new-media arts education in afterschool and library contexts (by Digital Youth Network).
NetLogo
NetLogo is one of the leading agent-based modeling environments. While a student and research assistant in the Center for Connected Learning and Computer Based Modeling at Northwestern, I developed several extensions to NetLogo, including peer-to-peer networking (allowing agents to communicate across NetLogo instances and for more interactive multi-user simulations).
ActiveCampus
The ActiveCampus project at UC San Diego pioneered location-aware social mobile computing applications, creating tools that help users to find friends, nearby activities and places of interest, and to share their explorations with one another. I was a lead designer.
