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My thoughts and the thoughts of talented others on digital strategic communication, digital & media literacy, information design, education & instruction, and the field of human communication.
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Learning Strategies for Teaching Professors
The Teaching Professor Conference was full of good teaching ideas and resources. Here are a few from selected panels I attended. For further information on one of these strategies, leave a comment here. Engaging Students in their Own Learning Angie Nippert and Kris Bransford of Concordia University and Karen Moroz of Hamline University The four…
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Why Won’t They Talk? Breaking the norms of the college classroom – #TPC12 Keynote Speaker
“A lecture about discussion is always a bad idea,” says Jay Howard of his keynote speech at the Teaching Professor Conference on June 2, 2012 in Washington, DC. Howard, Professor of Sociology and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Butler University, says effective discussions require careful planning and structuring. Norms exist in…
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The Lively Discussion: Getting students to talk and learn
“Any discussion protocol is a game that you play in class, linked to your course aims,” says Burdick. Using Film Noir as a backdrop for classroom techniques, Dakin Burdick, Director for the Center for Teaching Excellence at Endicott College in Massachusetts, advanced the conversation on classroom discussions at The Teaching Professor Conference June 2, 2012…
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Digital Storytelling and the Hero’s Journey
“Stories are interesting in ways that normal conversation is not,” says David Noah. In Noah’s freshman seminar course at the University of Georgia, students are invited to be part of a hero’s journey* that combines narrative design, digital storytelling, and personal experiences. “I wanted students to journal in a reflective way about their own academic…
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“Design Thinking” at ACBJ’s Digital Speaker Series
Our Community 2.0 project is starting to generate some attention, and I was honored to be invited to share my work in the Digital Speaker Series hosted by American City Business Journals in Charlotte, North Carolina, last week. Here is the slide deck from the presentation, which focused on applying design thinking to the issues of…
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Investing in Digital Literacy through Social Media
This article was featured on the Social Media Club’s Education Blog on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. *** Entertainer Cee-Lo Green’s cat, Purrfect, has become a mouthpiece for NBC’s The Voice, a singing competion which this past Tuesday crowned its second winner. With 63,000 followers on Twitter, this feline certainly has a voice of its own – one that…
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Go Hunt Scan – Hospital’s history lesson goes digital
“Thanks for 100 years, Greenville.” A centennial celebration serves as the foundation for a digital scavenger hunt like no other. On the occassion of its 100th anniversary, Greenville Hospital System (GHS) is chronicling its history through a summer-long event that combines digital technology and community. From May 4-August 11, 2012, GHS’s Go-Hunt-Scan invites participants to find and…
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Tally your Tweets
It’s a simple question: “How many times did you tweet today?” Yet, some are hesitant to answer. Why would you want to publicly display your private digital life? In our last session of our digital literacy seminar, each student was supposed to find a way for our course content to intersect with other students at Queens.…
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Now Available: Community 2.0
As our society becomes more saturated with digital technologies, members in and leaders of all types of communities will be challenged to incorporate, assess, and even design digital and media tools and experiences for their communities. Community 2.0 – at the intersection of digital media and information design – aims to integrate information design squarely…
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Egging our campus
Under the watchful eye of the Evans clock tower at Queens University of Charlotte, students awoke Wednesday to find that the residential quad on campus had been egged. On Monday, students in the digital literacy exploration seminar stuffed over 1,000 easter eggs with digital literacy tips and candy. This morning, they egged the campus by staging a…
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