Bill Wolff, PhD

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

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  • 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…

  • wordles of obama’s cairo speech

    Reading the speech Obama gave this morning in Cairo was like reading all of complex, elusive, and often conflicting ideas that I have had for quite a while about the relationships among Christians, Muslims, and Jews. How refreshing to hear them coming from a president of the United States and not only whispered by…

  • switching wordpress themes: the process begins

    Over the last few months I have grown dissatisfied with my current layout, which is based off of the WordPress Laila 2.0 theme. The primary reason is that I don’t think it reflects the dynamic nature of the work my students are doing, nor does it provide access to the multiple spaces that my…