People

Kathy Sanford –is Associate Dean Teacher Education at the University of Victoria. Her research projects involve new and alternative literacies, gender, assessment, and teacher education. A particular current focus relates to learning through engagements with video games.
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Leanna Madill – is a doctoral student in the Faculty of Education, at the University of Victoria. She has taught in a high school, and now teaches in the Teacher Education Program. Her research interests include alternative research representations, gender, literacy, alternative texts, assessment, and teacher education.
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Liz Merkel
Project Manager

Feng Xie
Research Assistant
Undergraduate student in Software Engineering, University of Victoria.

James Freeman
Research Assistant
Graduate student in Sociology, University of Victoria.

Tara Ehrcke - Teaches a high school classroom of Information Technology and Programming. She teaches video game design within her IT courses. She coordinates and provides links between other educators and community members who are involved in adolescents’ video game literacy practices.

Patrick Schreck - Teaches a high school classroom of Information Technology and Programming. He teaches video game design within his IT courses as well. He also coordinates and provides links between other educators and community members who are involved in adolescents’ video game literacy practices.

Anita Ram
Research assistant
Graduate Student Educational Psychology Department, University of Victoria

Michelle Spencer
Research assistant
Elementary Teacher Education Program, University of Victoria

Rebecca Ticknor
Research assistant
Elementary Teacher Education Program, University of Victoria

Nathan Georgesen
Research assistant
Graduate Student Educational Psychology Department, University of Victoria

Adrianne Stacey
Research assistant
Graduate Student Curriculum and Instruction Department, University of Victoria

Pearkes Recreation Centre – Programmers from the youth drop-in center at a local recreational centre where adolescents have the option to play video games provided a link between educational sites and community-based sites, enabling this research project to draw on understandings from various perspectives.

Dr. Richard Levy - Professor of Planning and Urban Design, University of Calgary