Posts Tagged ‘teaching’

Henry Jenkins writes in Confessions of an Aca/Fan: “Geeking Out” For Democracy (Part Two) 050409:
The Obama campaign was able to create an ongoing relationship with these new voters, connecting across every available media platform. Log onto YouTube and Obama was there in political advertisements, news clips, comedy sketches, and music videos, some created by the [...]

“Your Brain on Blog” Video: Andrew Sullivan and Marc Ambinder discuss the narcotic appeal of blogging and the occupational hazards of thinking quickly.
Why I Blog by Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic, November 2008.
Andrew Sullivan’s blog: The Daily Dish

Howard Rheingold’s Digital Journalism Workspace: Winter Quarter, 2009:
About This Course
Over the past two decades, shifts in media technologies, institutional structures and the organization of public life have combined to change the practice of journalism. This course explores these shifts, with an eye to seeing how they affect journalism’s role in society. At the same time, [...]

YouTube - Vernacular Video by hrheingold:

Inexpensive digital cameras, laptop editing, and network distribution have detonated an explosion of vernacular video, from YouTube to Open Courseware. This is a broad look at the ways video vernaculars are changing pop culture — and a hint of changes to come in education. Six and a half minutes.

Amy Gahran, Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits 102608:
I’ve written before about what I think j-schools might do in order to evolve and remain relevant. Mostly, I think j-schools need to be coordinating even integrating more closely with other departments — mainly business schools and departments of computer science and library science.