Bill Wolff, PhD

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

teaching

  • “schools aren’t businesses”: two must-read education articles

    There are two must read education-related magazine articles this September, one in Harper’s and one in Smithsonian. These are must-reads for educators, but the real beneficiary of them would be those who are not in public education (and, especially those who also continue to complain against it and rail against teachers) and politicians who…

  • flip video workshop prezi

    On March, 10, I led a workshop at Rowan entitled 6 7 Recommendations for Using Flip (and other) Video Cameras in the (non-video) Classroom (download a video of the full workshop [.mp4]). The workshop was offered as part of the terms of a grant I received to be able to purchase 20 Flip Video…

  • teaching students how to create meaningful tags

    Ryancordell asked me to say a few words about teaching tagging to my students and I am very happy to do so. I have been trying to figure out how to teach tagging to my graduate and undergraduate students since I began using Diigo several years ago. Actually, after I finished presenting a paper…

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

    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 Flip Ultra video camera we’re using, as well as learn some of the basics…