Education
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Creepy Treehouse
This is an interesting article about using cyberspaces in education: http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/04/09/defining-creepy-tree-house/
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Form and narrative
Reading Gonzalo Frasca’s article about ludology/video game theory, “Simulation versus Narrative,” really has me taking a look at how I use form and narrative in my own teaching and writing. As an undergrad art history major, I loved looking at form. I really liked artists like O’Keefe and Pollock and Rothko for their color, line [...]
Monday, March 24th, 2008Copyright
interesting talk by Lessig (http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/).
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Classrooms and Learning
What do we think when we think about a classroom. A classroom is a physical place, where the seemingly transparent act of learning takes place. We may think of a classroom as a neutral place for learning to occur. A classroom, whether at the primary or university level are charged spaces that represent complex social [...]
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Amateurs vs. Experts
I like the story that Newsweek ran last week online titled “Revenge of the Experts,” how experts are reclaiming a place on the internet. The article qoutes Charlotte Beal as a proponent of expert information. “People are beginning to recognize that the world is too dangerous a place for faulty information.” Whether or not this [...]
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Libraries Will Disappear by 2019
Slate.com is running an interesting slide show/article on building libraries (specifically downtown city libraries) in the age of Google. The slide show features several contemparary interpretations of libraries in cities such as: Chicago, Nashville and Seattle. One of the interesting critiques of current libraries is on the building itself. Many libraries reflect ”an outmoded structure erected [...]
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Zamzar
A friend of mine who teaches college German was just telling me about this web 2.0 site, Zamzar. http://www.zamzar.com/ It converts files without having to download them. He said it’s becoming a boon to secondary school foreign language instructors who want to use youtube videos in cultural instruction, but can’t because they’re districts have blocked [...]
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Using “Second Life” in Education
In case you’re interested in using the Web 2.0 application / community, Second Life, in your classroom, here are some starting points: Sciences: Second Life Ecosystem, Terminus, 146,210,27 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Science on a Sphere, Meteora, 145,131,28 Art: Linden Gallery of Resident Art, Kirkby, 219,201,23 http://secondarts.wordpress.com http://slartmagazine.com http://arsvirtua.com Real Life Education in Second [...]
Sunday, January 27th, 2008A Bibliography for digital cultural studies
So I’ve been trying to develop a really good bibliography that could possibly serve as a comp list in this field. Here’s the list…I’d appreciate suggestions to add, specifically additions a la Leo Marx and David Nye that would make the list more American Studies-ish. If you’re a grad student in AMS/cultural studies/STS, please feel [...]
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