Introduction

 I am an A/r/tographer which stands for artist, researcher and teacher and is also known as a Creative Practice Researcher. My Ph.D. dissertation, “Developing a Learning Model for Online Film Education,” entailed the development of a learning model that allows students to produce films online and in a virtual world using a process called machinima, with a goal of helping to democratize film education. I engaged in research by directing and producing two films and developing an online film production curriculum. The first film was a 17-minute live-action/machinima hybrid film, Romeo & Juliette16, shot in Tokyo and Toronto, and the second, a feature documentary about the ‘making-of’ of the machinima portion, which engages with film and media academics about the affordances of this new medium.  

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Film, Television and Media Production, Ideation and Screenwriting, Virtual Learning Environments and Applications for Creatives, Creative Practice Research, A/r/tography, Multi-Platform Storytelling, Online/Hybrid/ Face-to-Face Curriculum Development, Media Entrepreneurship, VR/AR Media Production, and Cross-Disciplinary Opportunities of Gaming and Film and Television.