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A Digital Immigrant Attempts to Understand Digital Natives
by Mike • • 2 Comments
When I read through the material this week one term that really made me stop and say, “Holy s_ _ t, I’m getting old!” was the term digital native. The use of this term reminds me of an older…
New Media vs Mass Media
by Kim De Vries • • 9 Comments
Excerpted from Robert Logan posting on PBS/MediaShift One of my objectives in updating Marshall [McLuhan’s] work is to identify the characteristics of new media and contrast them with the electronic mass media that McLuhan dealt with. Given that the medium…
Engl 1002-7 Student Blogs
by Kim De Vries • • 21 Comments
Ok! You have now not only registered here, but have set up your own blog. You are ready to start participating in Web 2.0. Yay! Maribel Andrade http://maribel5.wordpress.com Stefanie Arevalo Brittanee Avila http://bavila3.wordpress.com Grant Berlanga-Hurst http://gberlangahurst.wordpress.com Amelia Blades http://ablades.wordpress.com Emily…
Engl 3150 Student Blogs
by Kim De Vries • • 32 Comments
You have all set up your own blogs in which to share your thoughts about class. Welcome to Web 2.0!
Engl 1002-9 Student Blogs
by Kim De Vries • • 39 Comments
All of you will be setting up your very own blog to use for class. You are joining the participatory culture that characterizes Web 2.0. Yay! Let me know if I have your name wrong! Valery Anguiano http://vanguiano.wordpress.com/ Jesus Arriaga …
Yay! The 5010 syllabus is almost finished!
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
I am still adding some readings to the latter part of the semester, and I have to mark the furlough days, but we are approaching lift-off. Feel free to start poking around the links– and do let me know if…
New Media: Theory, Practice and Pedagogy
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
DRAFT — Note, this course is still being developed so the calendar and shorter readings are subject to change. Course Description/Goals: In this class, you will have the opportunity to: explore the wide range of pedagogical possibilities in technology and…
Inviting and Embracing Cultural Conflict in Writing and in the Classroom
by mbond • • 2 Comments
Once I said “esa,” (the female form) of “ese” (meaning homeboy or homegirl) from around the way way back in the day, during class and a student responded with “what?! you’re a scrap.” I didn’t know it, but I guess to him I was. I was talking like “a scrap.” And come to think of it, I did useta kick it, for a quick minute, with some vatos locos back in the day. Instead of inviting language diversity (my own) into the classroom, I alienated him because “esa” and “ese” are forbidden adversarial terms in his cultural language community.
Vico’s and Melina’s Humanist Side
by mbond • • 0 Comments
I’ve grown since that uncomfortable first experience with multiple intelligences. I understand that learning and teaching is a balance between abstract truth and common sense. And at the same time life is balance between chance and choice. Vico, very early, scrutinizes that “those whose only concern is abstract truth experience great difficulty in achieving their means, and greater difficulty in attaining their ends.”