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NEW STORIES/ NEW VOICES Crossing Urban Borders New Media Classroom |
New Stories,
New Voices
Review (45 minutes) the electronic syllabi and student
authored projects designated for your team. Each team should examine at least
3 syllabi and 2 projects, then pick the one you like the best. Consider the
points raised by the panel this morning and your own experience as an educator
and respond to the following questions:
Syllabi
- What can you learn from the conceptualization of this course? What is the basic narrative idea or the basic governing structures and categories?
- Has the use of technology made any "conceptual" difference in how these issues are dealt with?
- How might you plan and develop your online syllabus and course materials to enable a balance between coherence and multiplicity?
- Does this syllabus offer any good ideas to steal?
- In what ways do these projects differ from assignments used in more traditional classes? How do these projects seek to utilize the learning potential of hypertext/hypermedia?
- What kinds of historical, analytical (and perhaps interdisciplinary) skills are apparent in these projects? What kinds of learning seemed to be taking place?
- What would be (or are) your concerns about student authored projects such as these? How could these concerns be most effectively addressed?
- How might (or do) you make use of student-authored new media projects in your own teaching? What do you think might be gained? What might be lost?