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Free Range Assessment

By alex | Published: 8/5/2010
Over the last few months I’ve been keeping a close eye on the development of the (Mozilla and P2PU) School of Webcraft. (Here’s a 103 second introduction.) One reason for this is obvious: I’m interested in how people learn to produce content for the web, and I am interested in teaching using the open web [...]
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In whose name?

By alex | Published: 7/22/2010
Each semester, I ask students to blog publicly. There are many who argue that this is the only way to blog, and although I am not that extreme, I do think it has particular advantages. That said, there are good reasons for and against blogging in your own name. For students who are unsure, I [...]
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Does Adlai Stevenson matter?

By alex | Published: 6/29/2010
There is a great “fluff” piece over at the New York Times detailing the provenance of dorm rooms at a few schools. It includes a photograph of four freshmen at Princeton who, when told they were occupying Adlai Stevenson’s old dorm room replied that they didn’t know who the guy was but that “there’s famous [...]
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Intro Interactive (1): first steps

By alex | Published: 5/21/2010
Next fall, I’m teaching the introductory seminar and a course called “Communication, media, and society.” I’ve taught both before. At the graduation someone mentioned that it’s not like, in our field, we can just stay with a course and reteach it. That’s true to a certain extent, but one of the things I hope to [...]
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8 hours of TV?

By alex | Published: 5/11/2010
We talked quite a bit about TV when Jasper was about to be born. We talked about getting rid of it entirely. We watch what I consider to be a lot of television, though it is perhaps not as much as in some households. It was a lot less before we got a PVR; like [...]
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Networked Teaching

By alex | Published: 5/6/2010
Abstract for my “Internet Research 11.0″ paper, to be presented this coming October… Networked Teaching: Institutional Changes to Support Personal Learning Networks Much of the educational literature of late has made a marked shift to the perspective of the individual learner at the center of a network of learning resources in the form of other people, environments, [...]
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Draft Web Programming Syllabus

By alex | Published: 11/24/2009
Completely redoing the required Web Programming course. Here is the draft syllabus. Obviously, still need to build the core site, exams, etc. Overview and Objectives The aim of this course is to provide you with the skills needed to implement your designs and create a standards-compliant, functional web site. In particular, you will be learning: how a web [...]
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