About the Readings

Reading are listed in alphabetical order, not the order in which they are assigned. Many of the essays are PDF files that require a PDF reader, like the free Adobe Reader. Notes from BW are in [ ].

Learning Record Texts to be Read for Week 2

• Learning Record Overview
• History of the Learning Record
• Five Dimensions of Learning
• Using Small Multiples
• FAQs
• Grading Criteria

Course Readings

Atwood, M. (2010, March 19). Atwood in the Twittersphere. New York Review of Books.

Branch, J. (2012, December 20). Snow fall: The avalanche at tunnel creek. The New York Times. [multimedia piece; not printable]

Christians, C.G. (2005). Ethics and politics in qualitative research. In N.K. Denzin & Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (3rd ed.) (pp 139 – 164). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [.pdf]

Creswell, J.W. (2007). Five qualitative approaches to inquiry. In J.W. Creswell Qualitative inquiry & research design (2nd ed.). (pp. 53 – 84). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [.pdf]

Gerard, P. (2006). The art of creative research. The Writer’s Chronicle. [pdf; formatting is weird because I had to grab it off of the ]

Hudson, J.M. & Bruckman, A. (2004). “Go Away”: Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research. The Information Society, 20, pp. 127–139. [PDF]

Johnson, S. (2009, June 5). How Twitter will change the way we live. Time. [PDF found online because after 4 years Time decided to put it behind a paywall.]

Jones, C. (2008, May). The things that carried him. Esquire. [Printable version.]

Junod, T. (2003, September). . Esquire. [archived version.]

Nutt, A.E. (2008, December 7). Jon Sarkin: The accidental artist. The Star-Ledger. [please read all so-called “chapters”]

Pink, S. (2007). Photography in ethnographic research. In Doing visual ethnography (pp. 65 – 95). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [.pdf]

Rettberg, J.W. (2009). What is a blog? Blogging. Malden, MA: Polity Press.

Ross, T. (2007, December). The source of all things. Backpacker. [There is no way to print the whole piece at once.]

Siebert, C. (2009, July 12). Watching whales watching us. The New York Times Magazine. [Printable version.]

Silver, D. (2009, February 25). The difference between thin and think tweets. Silver in SF.

Syverson, M.A. (1999). Thinking with the things as they exist: Ecology of a poem. In The wealth of reality: An ecology of composition (pp. 28-74). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. [.pdf]

Thompson, C. (2008, September 5). Brave new world of digital intimacy. The New York Times Magazine. [Printable version.]

Wallace, D.F. (1996, January). Shipping out. Harper’s Magazine. [PDF, 8.6mb]

Wallace, D.F. (1994, July). Ticket to the fair. Harper’s Magazine. [PDF, 7.4mb]