Gall’s Law dictates we should create complex systems by beginning with simple ones. Read More »
Learning Through Digital Media
Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy
Edited by R. Trebor Scholz
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Last update: March 31, 2011
Socializing Blogs, a Guide for Beginners
I have been teaching with digital media since 1994. Computers, software and, more recently, social media have enhanced my ability to provide hands-on, memorable instruction for studio, seminar and art history lecture classes.
From my perspective, digital media has two major failings: its obvious transience and archival challenges. Next semester, if I teach the same courses, I will need to completely overhaul my syllabus, readings, handouts and how-to guides. Read More »
Beyond Friending: BuddyPress and the Social, Networked, Open-Source Classroom
In the spring of 2007, I asked students in the “Introduction to English Studies” course that I was teaching at Temple University to use blogs to discuss the novels we were reading for class. During a unit on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, one of my students wrote a post titled “Chaos and Imagination”[1] that speculated upon the autobiographical roots of Ellison’s text (Cummings). Soon after the post was published, a comment appeared from an unexpected contributor: a producer from Radio Open Source Read More »