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Ahu
Yolac
Assistant Professor

Ahu Yolac is a game studies researcher, game designer, and gamer. She looks at video games as multidisciplinary spaces and she explores ways to create opportunities for collaboration in and through games among multiple disciplines, players, designers, and game enthusiasts. As a gamer herself, she plays board games, tabletop RPG games, and video games. She is also a very successful moon druid in her D&D campaign.

Ahu is interested in informal learning outcomes, such as thinking ways and strategies that are a result of and encouraged through gameplay. She explores game design approaches and practices that focus on encouraging intentionality and criticality for both players and designers. Her current research focuses on critical and transdisciplinary learning experiences in and through video games.

Her research interests are game design; game studies; gaming subculture; virtual environments; critical play; art, design, and technology in education; virtual spaces; and video games as pedagogical tools.

Ahu is a multidisciplinary designer. She holds a Ph.D. in Arts Education with a focus on Game Design and Game Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an MSc in Industrial Design from Middle East Technical University, and a BFA in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design from Bilkent University.

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.