Category Archives: Teaching

Columbia Course on Social Software

By alex | Published: 9/10/2005
Interesting syllabus for a course at Columbia’s Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education (found via weblogg-ed). They are also aggregating content, through the del.icio.us tag “ccte”. It’s not clear to me if they are also using del.icio.us to tag their own blog entries, though that would be a pretty effective way to go about things. […]
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Katrina and native technologies

By alex | Published: 9/9/2005
We’ve been reading The Human-Built World (Thomas Hughes) in the informatics seminar to get participants started in thinking about technology. I find it an interesting little book that fills a particular niche nicely. It’s a short read that spurs questions of how we can and should think about technology in a very broad way. Our […]
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Death to communication

By alex | Published: 9/5/2005
The communication theory seminar is reading the Peters book this week. One of the students has written quite a bit on it, and I wanted to answer one of his recent posts. His entry wanders a bit, and so you’ll have to bear with me wandering back. And though I have framed this as a […]
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Top ten grating questions

By alex | Published: 9/8/2004
Let’s talk about grades. As I go into this below, a couple of the students from tonight’s class are going to recognize their own words. Don’t feel singled out–they are included here because they are representative of a lot of students’ questions over the last few years. 1. So, this is a writing course? Like […]
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