Bill Wolff, PhD

Associate Professor, Communication, Film, and Journalism, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA

Bill

  • wordpress releases version 2.8

    Building on their prior release, which they called Coltrane, WordPress 2.8 is named Baker after Jazz legend Chat Baker. I really enjoy how they are equating blogging and jazz. See video for the many cool updates. https://videopress.com/v/Pu3T4X8l

  • 6 recommendations for teaching with the flip video camera

    In June 2008 I received a grant for 20 Flip Video Cameras (.pdf) to be used in one of the required courses in the Writing Arts undergraduate major at Rowan, “Writing, Research, and Technology.” The general goal of the course was to extend traditional conceptions of composition by applying it to the medium of…

  • using twitter in the graduate classroom

    There has been much discussion lately about how Twitter is being used in the undergraduate classroom. Daisy Pignetti describes how she used Twitter in 3 sections (2 online, 1 in person) of English 102 at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.  Monica Rankin discusses how she implemented what she has described as the “Twitter Experiment” into…

  • concerns about newsweek’s oprah cover photo

    The June 8, 2009, issue of the “new” Newsweek has a cover article called “Crazy Talk: Oprah, Wacky Cures, & You” by Weston Kosova and Pat Wingert. The print version of the US edition has this cover photo Oprah: My scan of the image does not fully capture the problem, but compare this image…