October 2006
The New Face of Learning
by jlesage
"In an environment where it's easy to publish to the globe, it feels more and more hollow to ask students to "hand in" their homework to an audience of one. When we're faced with a flattening world where collaboration is becoming the norm, forcing student
HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!
by jlesage & 4 others
Check out how blogs work, how MySpace works, how DSL works, how digital cameras work; also how to buy....
Composing Cyberspace, by Rich Holeton
by jlesage
website for book, with sections on knowledge, community, and identity; does not have text of book but many useful questions, links, and resources
Teaching Writing in the Space of Blackboard
by jlesage
Since many teachers use Blackboard, this is useful to them in analyzing how students negotiate aspects of that site and its technologies.
September 2006
Popular Tags on Flickr Photo Sharing
by jlesage & 1 other
For teaching film, popular tags to follow include "narrative," "fiction," "story." It makes a good early Easy assignment: ask students to do a photo narrative, which now can be posted in Flickr and tagged with a class title, e.g., "101lesage"--teacher mu
July 2006
ScreenSite: media education, film terminology, syllabi, news articles, film schools
by jlesage & 1 other
upgrade July 06; essential site for film and media syllabi, annotated journal roundups, and inventory of college media programs; new category for posting articles
June 2006
