Category Archives: academia

what students learned completing the youtube project

by Bill Posted on February 26, 2009

One of the main goals of my courses is for students to reflect on what they are learning as they are going through the process of completing an assignment. That goal has in the past been fulfilled by Learning Record … Continue reading →

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“what does youtube mean to you?”: my students’ videos

by Bill Posted on February 25, 2009

This semester in my Writing, Research, and Technology course students are learning how to create idea-driven video compositions. The larger project is to create a video oral history on an important contemporary topic. To help students get familiar with the … Continue reading →

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the metaphors of class discussion

by Bill Posted on February 5, 2009

Information Architecture began in earnest this past Monday with the discussion of Lakoff and Johnson’s seminal Metaphors We Live By. Lead by Joe Sabatini’s discussion questions, and informed by student responses to the reading posted at the IAOC Blog, students … Continue reading →

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replacing online advertising with add-art

by Bill Posted on February 5, 2009

Via @timoreilly, Add-Art replaces online advertisements with curated art images via a Firefox plug-in: This will obviously raise eyebrows in the the advertising community, as well as in companies that depend on advertisement revenues. But it also raises important questions … Continue reading →

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