Category: Media and Pop Culture
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Notes on “Identity Interface: Rhetorical Analysis, Graphic Design, and Comics”
Notes from another CCCC session that I found engaging. In this session, the presenter spent a good deal of time thinking about design from the standpoint of a writing teacher, and I found her angle on it informative. In particular, I found her categories of balance, unity, gestalt, and hierarchy a more nuanced way of…
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Reposting: On a “feedâ€ing frenzy
In August of 2005, I started blogging on the domain that Steve and I bought to host our now defunct podcast. In October, I posted my thoughts on M.T. Anderson’s book, feed. Soon after, I loaned it to Davin, (who I mention in the post below) and just yesterday he stopped by for a surprise…
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Notes from Brian Winn’s “Serious Games” Talk
Brian Winn, an Assistant Professor from Comm Arts and one of the directors of the Games for Entertainment and Learning (GEL) Lab, gave a talk on “Serious Games.” Here is part of his bio: I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Co-Director of the Games for Entertainment and…
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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
The link to this video, “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us” has been the hit of the day on a number of listservs that I am on. Watch it, and you will see why.
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Visions of Technology In English
Tomorrow, I will be working with a colleague’s class of pre-service English teachers. He asked me to “offer this group is a vision or several visions of what is possible regarding technology and writing” and I can think of a few, but there are two rolling around in my mind right now. First, I return…
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And Time’s Person of the Year is…
OK, if we didn’t have enough of a reason to teach our students that they are, indeed, producers of digital writing — and that this matters as a skill they need to have — this story might be the final straw that convinces educators that we need to take it seriously: But look at 2006…
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Typo Generator
Now, here is a great way to kill time and generate cool graphics for your blog: typoGenerator Interestingly enough, the warning at the bottom of this image says “the images used for generating may be subject to copyright.” Also interesting, as soon as I clicked away from the page, the temp image that was stored…
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Re: Popular Media Representations of Scientific Methods
Steve asks, “can you think of any examples of representations of “scientific method†in popular media?” I am not often on the look out for this, let alone watching TV, so I am sure that there are some examples that are embedded in shows other than CSI that have implications for you. However, the one…
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Web 2.0h No?
Another FoxTrot that seems to sum up the debate about Web 2.0. FoxTrot by Bill Amend – September 22, 2006 Not much else to say about this except that I hope we, as educators, decide what to call it so we can begin to talk about it with some continuity. I think that is part…
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Notes from “Journalism and Academic Research on Education”
Another great presentation today. Here are the official details with my notes below: New York Times education columnist Samuel Freedman will visit the College next week. He will speak on “Journalism and Academic Research on Education” on Tuesday, September 19th at 2:00 p.m. in 252 EH. Freedman is a Professor at the Columbia University School…