Life in Academe
Events and experiences that remind me that I’m a professor and I love working in higher education.
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What’s Next, and Why it Could Matter to You, with Amy Webb
They’re not just scary trends that invade our privacy. Even frightening tools can be used for good. Amy Webb of Webbmedia Group, a digital strategy agency, highlighted three current trends that could be made relevant to community foundations at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar. Social discovery. Tagging, or captioning, pictures with hyperlinks occurs across…
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WOW and Doable! A look at five successful community information projects
“These are ideas you can steal,” says Knight Foundation Vice President for Communities, Trabian Shorters, of the five community information projects discussed at this session of the 2012 Media Learning Seminar. You Choose – Bay Area “Your home, your future, your choice.” Margot Rawlins and the Silicon Valley Foundation developed an three-prong approach to engaging…
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Dan Gillmor on Civic Engagement in a Networked Society
When Dan Gillmor took the stage at Knight Foundation’s Media Learning Seminar, his message was one of digital literacy. “Distribution is no longer the problem (for news). The problem is now access. Our students will invent the future of news delivery.” Gillmor, founding director of the Knight Center or Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University,…
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Media Learning Expo
Get some really innovative people in a room together and ask them to share what they do. That’s the simple concept behind the Expo at Knight Foundation’s Media Learning Seminar this week at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami. At the Expo, I went from booth to booth, hearing about innovative ideas and gathering resources that…
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Media Learning Seminar 2012
To get my head in the game for this week’s Media Learning Seminar in Miami, I went to a community space just outside the conference hotel. Bayfront Park was bustling with families, couples, people exercising, kids on bikes, and groups of teens showing off for each other. As an onlooker, I watched the people, picking…
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Tweet a Valentine to your Professor. Give a Shorty Award Nomination
This Valentine’s Day, send your social media savvy professor a little love with a Shorty Award nomination. The Shorty Awards are an event that honors the best authors of short-form content on micro-blogging sites like Twitter. The genre of learning awards only has two featured categories: college and science. I think it is time we…
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Digital Literacy Brainstorm
How would you know if you were digitally literate? In our exploration seminar at Queens University of Charlotte, our central question surrounds digital literacies. For our fourth weekly inquiry, students and invited guests will investigate the markers of digital literacy in a group brainstorm. We’ll start with the white paper Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action written by Renee…
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Developing digital skills
What are the skills necessary to be digitally literate? In her white paper Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, Renee Hobbs suggests that digital and media literacy is a five-part effort including the abilities to access, analyze, create, reflect, and act. In his article Attention and other 21st century literacies, Howard Rheingold names…
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Digital Citizens
What does it mean to be a citizen in a digital world? Who are the best examples of this type of citizenship? In our exploration seminar at Queens University of Charlotte, our central question surrounds digital literacies. For our second weekly inquiry, students will investigate what it means to be a digital citizen. To do…
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An Exploration in Digital Literacy
I’m embarking on a journey through an untested classroom. At Queens University of Charlotte, the university is investing in a prototype for faculty-student interaction through seminars that explore a specific question or inquiry. I’ve agreed to be part of the pilot project taking place this spring. Fifteen brave students and I will examine the landscape of digital literacy and…
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