Lemmingworks

This page covers ongoing projects, recent publications, and online materials. A full CV is available on request.

Journals
Learning Inquiry – co-Editor-in-Chief (2006-2009)

ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin Special Issue: Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power in Virtual Communities – Guest Co-Editor (2005)

Books – Edited
Luzzatto, K., Pagliassotti, D., Twomey, T., Nolan, J., and Kajihara, Y. (2007). Midnight Lullabies. Thousand Oaks, California: The Harrow Press.
Weiss, J., Nolan, J., Hunsinger, J., and Trifonas, P. (Eds.). (2006). The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments. Berlin: Springer Academic Publishers.
Luzzatto, K., O’Rourke, M., and Nolan, J. (2005). Fear of the Unknown. Laurel, MD: Echelon Press.
Nolan, J., and Andrews, W. (Eds.). (1996). Towards an Ecozoic Curriculum: The Infusion Model Curriculum Development Project of the Ontario Society for Environmental Education. Toronto: Ontario Society for Environmental Education.

Articles

Nolan, J., Mann, S, and Bakan, D. (Submitted). First Splashes in the Frolic Lab: Exploring Play-based Learning, Water and Sound with Nessie the Hydraulophone.

Nolan, J., Bakan, D. and Khan, N. (Submitted). Songchild.org: Social Technologies for Cultural Production by Young Children.

Mazar, R., and J. Nolan. (2009). Hacking say and reviving ELIZA: Lessons from virtual environments. Innovate 5 (2). http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=547 (accessed January 14, 2009).

Nolan, J. and Hunsinger, J. (2007). “Editorial: introducing Learning Inquiry”. Learning Inquiry. 1(1). Springer.

Nolan, J. & Levesque, M. (2006). Hakowanie czlowieka: archeologia danych i nadzor w sieciach spolecznych. [Hacking human: data-archaeology and surveillance in social networks.]. Translated by A. Tarkowski. Kultura Popularna, nr 1 (15)/2006. pp. 43-50.

Nolan, J. & Levesque, M. (2005). Hacking human: data-archaeology and surveillance in social networks. ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin Special Issue: Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power in Virtual Communities. 25(2). pp. 33-37.

Mann, S., Nolan, J., and Wellman, B., (2003). Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices for Data Collection in Surveillance Environments. Surveillance & Society. 1(3) [Online]

Nolan, J., Lawrence, J. and Kajihara, Y., Montgomery’s (1999). Island in the Net: Metaphor and Community on the Kindred Spirits E-mail List. Canadian Children’s Literature. 91/92, 24:64-77.

Chapters

* Nolan, J. (Accepted). “Learning with Anne: Early Childhood Education Looks at New Media for Young Girls.” In Gammel, I. and Lefebvre, B. (Eds.) Anne of Green Gables: New Directions at 100. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

* Nolan, J. and Bakan, D. (2009). “Social technologies for young children: Cultural Play with Songchild.org” In Poissant, L, and Tremblay, P. (Eds.) Toronto/Montréal/Lille: Together Elsewhere. Montreal: Presse de l’Université du Québec.

* Nolan, J., Mann, S., and Wellman, B. (2008). “Sousveillance: Wearable and Digital Tools in Surveilled Environments.” In Hawk, B., Rieder, D., and Oviedo, O., (Eds.), Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. Minnesota: U. Minnesota Press.

Sponaas-Robins, R. and Nolan, J. (2006). “Collaborative Text-Based Virtual Learning Environments.” In Weiss, J., Nolan, J., Hunsinger, J., and Trifonas, P., (Eds.), The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments. Berlin: Springer Academic Publishers.

Levesque, M., and Nolan, J. (2006). “The Human Hack: Social Network Tools for Constructing Identity Topologies.” In Weiss, J., Nolan, J., Hunsinger, J., and Trifonas, P., (Eds.), The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments. Berlin: Springer Academic Publishers.

* Weiss, J., Nolan, J. and Nincic, V. (2005). “Difference and the Internet: When Ethnic Community Goes Online.” In Trifonas, P., (Eds.), Communities of Difference: Language, Culture and Technology. New York: Palgrave.

* Nolan, J. (2005). “The Influence of ASCII on the Construction of Internet-based Knowledge”. In Hewitt, J. and DeCoito, I., (Eds.), OISE-UT Papers in Technology Education. Toronto: Imperial Oil Centre for Science, Mathematics and Technology Education.

* Sponaas-Robins, R. and Nolan, J. (2005). “MOOs: Polysynchronous Collaborative Virtual Environments.” In Zemliansky, P., and St. Amant, K., (Eds.), Workplace Internet-Based Communication: Industry and Academic Perspectives. New York: Idea Group.

* Nolan, J. (2005). “The Technology of Difference: ASCII, Hegemony and the Internet.” In Trifonas, P., (Ed.), Communities of Difference: Culture, Language, Technology. New York: Palgrave.

* Nolan, J. (2003). “Web Logs, Blogs and Online Journals: Informal and Professional Writing Communities.” In Christensen K., and Levinson, D., (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

* Nolan, J., & Weiss, J. (2002). “Learning Cyberspace: An Educational View of Virtual Community.” In Renninger, A., and Shumar, W. (Eds.), Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace. Cambridge UP.

* Hidi, S., Weiss, J., Berndorff, D. & Nolan, J. (1998). “Learning Science Across Formal and Informal Learning Settings: The Role of Gender, Instruction and a Co-operative Learning Technique.” In L. Hoffmann, A. Krapp, K.A. Renninger, & J. Baumert (Eds.), Interest & Learning. IPN_Schriftenreihe Keil: IPN.

Kajihara, Y., & Nolan, J. (1998). “Remembering Montgomery in Toronto.” In Heilbron, A. (Ed.), The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album. Toronto: Fitzhenry.

Presentations
“Criticially Reflective and Narrative Multi-media for Middle-Schools.” the Wallis Annenberg Initiative, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California, October 8, 2005.

“Blogging and Higher Education.” Social Software in the Academy, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, October 22-24, 2004.

“Hacking Humans: Social Engineering and Data Mining.” Resource Centre for Academic Technology, University of Toronto, November 23, 2004 (with Michelle Levesque).

“Journaling Communities for Scholars.” RCAT Lecture Series: Communities of Scholars: New Ways to Collaborate, University of Toronto, November 13, 2003.

“Blogs and Weblogs: opportunities and conceptual firewalls.” The Nexus Conference: Connecting Teaching, Technology and Inclusive Learning. University of Toronto, May 9, 2003.

“Why Faculty Should Run Courseware Initiatives.” Invited Presentation at “Coursware Tools Revealed: Understanding the benefits, features and future of courseware,” Resource Centre for Academic Technology, University of Toronto, February 27, 2002.

Papers Read
“The Hegemony of ASCII: Rethinking Research into Online Communities in Light of the Deep Structures of the Internet.” Association of Internet Researchers, Toronto, October 2003.

“Vampiric Literary Antecedents in 14th-Century English-Latin Texts: Walter Map’s De Nugis Curialium and William of Newburgh’s Historia Rerum Anglicarum.” Third World Congress on Dracula, Sighisoara, Transylvania, Romania, May, 2003.

“Translating Medieval Vampires: Walter Map’s De Nugis Curialium and William of Newburgh’s Historia Rerum Anglicarum.” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March, 2003.

Books edited