Archive for the ‘Pedagogy’ Category
Eighth Graders learn Social Studies through blogging
An eight grade teacher has her students blog. I like her attitude that her students need to learn computers. This is a great way to teach students to how to communicate effectively online as well as learn important issues affecting today’s society.Students use blogs to study the world
“I’m not the greatest computer person in the world,” said Chamberlin, who teaches at St. Roch School on Indianapolis’ Southside. “But they have to be.”The students spent class Thursday in front of computers researching world issues online and writing short entries in a journallike format on a Web site. Each blog focuses on a single issue.
CEA 2006 Conference
I just wanted to note that Friday April 7, 2006, I presented a paper at the College English Association for the first time about using weblogs in the journalism classroom. I have never been to a conference where 20 people showed up to a panel. The room was energized and ready to embrace technology. I found CEA to be a friendly conference that I will definitely submit to again. I found that there is an audience for my research, which makes it even more exciting.
Professor Podcasts
Here’s a neat idea that one professor provided for his students. Additional lectures provided by podcasts… where one can download a professor’s lecture onto their MP3 player.
Now educating on an iPod near you
Many students walk through campus listening to their MP3 players, often with a favorite band filling their ears. But for a growing number of people, the sound may also be the voice of one of their professors.
Last term, journalism professor Al Stavitsky experimented with creating online audio files called podcasts, which he termed “Al Pods,†for his Mass Media and Society class.
Stavitsky, associate dean of the School of Journalism and Communication, said his podcasts differed from podcasts available at some schools in that they did not reproduce class lectures. Instead, they provided new content bridging the lectures and the assigned readings, freeing Stavitsky from spending large amounts of class time talking about the readings.
Copyright Infringment
According to MSNBC.com, more professors are posting reading assignments online. Is this copyright infringement OR is it convience to the student who is using the material for learning purposes? So, instead of illegally making 20 copies for students and wasting trees, publishing companies are balking at the use of an article that a professor places under password protection to the Internet for their students convience.
I guess professors will have to put a Paypal button next to these articles to collect fees that students would have used to COPY the article under the fair use act.
Here’s an excerpt from A different sort of campus copyright fight:
“It’s as simple as logging into my e-mail account, clicking on a few links and printing it,” said Lichtenstein, 21, a New York University communications senior from Birmingham, Ala. “There’s no going to the library, waiting on line, waiting to Xerox it, there’s none of that.”
And publishing companies are worried precisely because of that ease and convenience _ it’s another way for publishers to lose sales.
