Saturday, July 10, 2004
posted by joe grohens 3:59 PM
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Tango-L Swiki
collaborative website for tango at georgia tech
posted by joe grohens 4:58 PM
Friday, January 10, 2003
The Blogging Phenomenon: An Overview and Theoretical Consideration
Term paper by James Branum ... a lit review on blogging and some analysis using some theories from mass media critical theory.
. agenda setting theory of influence
. multi-step flow theories of influence
. gate keeping idea of journalism
posted by joe grohens 2:39 PM
Wednesday, January 08, 2003
Using A Feminist Pedagogy As A Male Teacher:
The Possibilities Of A Partial And Situated Perspective Radical Pedagogy (2000)
ISSN: 1524-6345
Using A Feminist Pedagogy As A Male Teacher:
The Possibilities Of A Partial And Situated Perspective
Steven P. Schacht
Plattsburgh State University of New York
Steven.Schacht@Plattsburgh.Edu
Interesting article on Steven Schacht's experiences teaching sociology of sport as a visiting professor.
posted by joe grohens 3:47 AM
Tuesday, January 07, 2003
RootsWeb.com Home Page
geneology site
posted by joe grohens 8:03 PM
The Droves of Academe
An amusing (and great) article in NY Observer on the MLA conference.
The article begins with this quote from Michael Berube.
"The famous line about the M.L.A. is that you’ve never seen a convention where people drink so much and fuck so little," said Michael Bérubé, an English professor from Penn State University.
posted by joe grohens 7:54 PM
Center for Book Culture: About Us
This is a non-profit grant-funded (free) journal and republisher of out of print books. I can't believe I never heard of this before. What a cool project. It was started in 1984. This link on how they got started is inspiring.
posted by joe grohens 7:51 PM
Online Learning Update
Ray Schroeder (at University of Illinois Springfield) keeps this blog of learning technology news.
posted by joe grohens 7:21 PM
Blogs as Disruptive Tech - How weblogs are flying under the radar of the Content Management Giants - Our Stories - Articles about our company, WebCrimson
weblogs vs content management systems
posted by joe grohens 4:53 AM
The Evolving Role of Course Management System Providers in the Transformation of Education - An Interview with Blackboard's Matthew Pittinsky
Blackboard's chairman discusses his philosophy of e-learning and plans for the 2nd generation fo blackboard.
posted by joe grohens 4:44 AM
Syllabus Article: Learning Management Systems: Seeking Paradigms for Collaboration
This up-to-date discussion of learning management systems (same as course management systems) such as Blackboard and WebCT discusses the role of open source development models for peripheral learning tools.
posted by joe grohens 4:20 AM
Sunday, December 29, 2002
Assistive Technology
article on user interface design for a VoiceXML menu on a bank's web browser. Author makes the point that experience fosters learning, and "interactive help is more effective than tutorials."
posted by joe grohens 2:18 PM
Saturday, December 28, 2002
Fred Kemp's CCCC94 Presentation
Fred's "The Limits of Proof in Writing Instruction".
In my mind this could have been the last word on the subject, though I know that the demand for verifiability will never go away.
In short, we want to discover the universal efficacy in a process, lay it out before the community untainted by the debilitating quirkiness of special enthusiasms, pure in some clinical way that asserts, unequivocally, that this thing works here, uninfluenced by special conditions, and it will work anywhere with anybody. Guaranteed.
We can do that with many of the things and processes we value in society. We can do that with air conditioning systems, vaccines, rockets, voting procedures, military training, and automobile repair.
But we haven't been able to isolate universally effective procedures for reforming criminals, rearing-children, making marriages last, rehabilitating drug users, and educating our children. This last is what we in this room are most professionally concerned with. We come to meetings like this in order to determine with as much certainty as we can what will work and what won't in our classrooms. And for this we want proof, or the closest thing to proof possible.
But I suggest that in writing instruction, and in any kind of instruction, actually, it is infuriatingly difficult to prove anything worth proving. All too often the evidence put forth in order to assemble the trappings of empirical proof are rhetorical devices that convince the already 80 percent convinced and are ignored by those already convinced otherwise.
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