Here is the podcast for our discussion of Twitter. I would like everyone to at least try Twitter briefly. If you have an account, that's fine. If not, create one. For now, I would encourage you to follow me at @chutry and to find other writers or educators you admire and to follow them.
Be sure to reflect on the essays and their discussion of what Twitter does or what it means (i.e., as a site for discussing issues, as a site where we become more aware of others' needs). Do you agree or disagree with these formulations?
I would also like to mention briefly that I am in the process of formulating your Big Project assignment for the course and will be posting that in the next few days.
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Twitter Readings
Here are the readings for our discussion on Twitter. The podcast will be posted Sunday night.
Week Three: Media Tool: Twitter Twenty Nine Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in theClassroom
Thompson, Clive, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy,” New York Times.
Johnson, Steven, “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live.”
Heffernan, Virginia, “Hashing Things Out, New York Times, OL.
Lenhart, Amanda, et al, “Where Teens Seek Online PrivacyAdvice,” Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Week Three: Media Tool: Twitter Twenty Nine Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in theClassroom
Thompson, Clive, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy,” New York Times.
Johnson, Steven, “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live.”
Heffernan, Virginia, “Hashing Things Out, New York Times, OL.
Lenhart, Amanda, et al, “Where Teens Seek Online PrivacyAdvice,” Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Friday, August 22, 2014
Week One Podcast: Introduction to Course
The podcast for Week One (Introduction to 518) is now available. I have posted it to the Internet Archive, a resource of public domain and Creative Commons videos, images, and audio files, and embedded it below:
The Internet Archive, which we will discuss in further detail later this semester, is a great resource for public domain resources that you can embed in your blog posts or on your web pages, audio files, including a vast collection of Grateful Dead bootlegs (if you're into that sort of thing), and videos. Their videos include a large number of early films including many of Edison's shorts and a number of public service government films (including instructional videos from the 1950s on how to date and on how to survive a nuclear war. They also provide access to "Open Library,"where you can access thousands of books for free.
For this week, you should create your free blog on Blogger or Word Press and post the link in the appropriate section of Blackboard. Do keep in mind that blogs are searchable, so if you don't want the blog to be associated with your name, you should consider using a pseudonym. You can generally change this later if you decide to use this blog as a professional page.
The Internet Archive, which we will discuss in further detail later this semester, is a great resource for public domain resources that you can embed in your blog posts or on your web pages, audio files, including a vast collection of Grateful Dead bootlegs (if you're into that sort of thing), and videos. Their videos include a large number of early films including many of Edison's shorts and a number of public service government films (including instructional videos from the 1950s on how to date and on how to survive a nuclear war. They also provide access to "Open Library,"where you can access thousands of books for free.
For this week, you should create your free blog on Blogger or Word Press and post the link in the appropriate section of Blackboard. Do keep in mind that blogs are searchable, so if you don't want the blog to be associated with your name, you should consider using a pseudonym. You can generally change this later if you decide to use this blog as a professional page.
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Week One Readings with Hyperlinks
Week One:
Technology Overview: Blogging, Twitter, and wikis
Watch: “A Vision of K-12 Students Today,” YouTube, OL.
Read: Jeffrey R. Young, “A Conversation with Bill Gates about the Future of Higher Education,” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 25, 2012, OL.
Anastasia Salter, “Are We Solving the Right Problems?” Prof Hacker, May 29, 2014.
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