Tag Archives: General

Stuff you should have

By alex | Published: 8/21/2008
We did a “bootcamp” for the online masters program. They are required to purchase an Adobe Suite, but there were other things I wanted them to have, or at least be exposed to. So I wrote the following up as a guide. What do you tell your students to get? Most of the items on […]
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Student team-teaching

By alex | Published: 8/15/2008
Howard Rheingold has posted the syllabus for his upcoming class for comment. It has a great selection of texts. It’s a class I’d have loved to have been able to take as a grad student–heck, I’d love to take it now–and I’ll point my students in the Media & Society class there for some ideas. […]
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Draft Unsyllabus for ICM/JRN 522

By alex | Published: 8/12/2008
The following is the framework for a course without a syllabus. This document is up on Google Docs, and seminar participants will edit it together on the first night of class. Communication, Media, & Society ICM/JRN 522, Fall 2008 Tuesdays, 18:30-21:10 (GMT-5), Buckman Center 137 Instructor Alexander Halavais, 522@halavais.net Skype, Google, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed: halavais […]
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Correction: I “buy” it

By alex | Published: 8/11/2008
I was looking over an article in the (Baltimore) Examiner that reads, in part: “Some things get really bad–histories, politics, gets controversial that doesn’t get settled easily,” said Bernard Huberman, author of a study, which determined that increased edits make Wikipedia articles “superior.” Not everyone is buying the study, and some even did their own […]
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