Link to: Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/28/2006 | Colleges pushed to prove worth Some time ago, Gardner proudly announced that he had passed 8th grade math. Soon, students at the nation’s 3000 universities may be able to display a little logo on their facebook or myspace accounts proudly documenting that they had passed their grade 16…
Month: March 2006
Queen Anne Lace: Getting Rid of Cursive Writing?
Link to: Queen Anne Lace: Getting Rid of Cursive Writing? This was the first time it dawned on me that many students no longer can read cursive writing. (Other than their names!) Many teachers have stated to me that they no longer teach it because it is not tested on Virginia Standards of Learning. Their…
Second in the Swem Sessions
Here is the second “Swem Sessions” podcast where Troy Davis, Director of the Swem Media Center, Sharon Zuber, Associate Professor of English and I discuss the future of “visual literacy” at William and Mary. (Troy produced this session. ) Some of it is above the oxygen layer and pretty theoretical, but that’s what happens when…
Finding Happiness in a Harvard Classroom
Link to: NPR : Finding Happiness in a Harvard Classroom Interesting NPR piece on Harvard’s most popular course–Psychology 1504: Positive Psychology. Over 900 students take the course which is offered in a Harvard theater. While some question the “fluffiness” of the course, and its appropriateness as a full credit offering at Harvard, others see a…
e-Literate: Video Literacy
Link to: e-Literate: Video Literacy I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to use rich media in courses that traditionally have been print oriented. My own background in media–both audio and video–is pretty weak, so I don’t have much of the grammar and vocabulary to think as effectively about the possibilities as I might….
Blackboard Joins the Read/Write Web
I have to admit that I’ve become a bit of a BlackBoard slacker lately, even though a very large number of our faculty use it extensively. The open world of blogs, wikis and the read/write web has been much more intriguing to me than the black hole of BlackBoard. My slackerness will change pretty dramatically…
Another Glimpse into the Future?
Link To: Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom One of the themes I’ve been returning to often is that the K-12 teachers in the trenches are shaping the future for those of us in higher education to a far greater extent than most of us in the college and university arena realize. Here’s…