Establishing a New Paradigm: the Call to Reform the Tenure and Promotion Standards for Digital Media Faculty
by James Richardson
Behind the Seams
A conversation about the JiTP editing process between author James Richardson and editorial collective members Luke Waltzer, Sarah Ruth Jacobs, and Steve Brier.
Issue 3, Spring 2013
Introduction
Luke Waltzer and Mikhail Gershovich
Establishing a New Paradigm: the Call to Reform the Tenure and Promotion Standards for Digital Media Faculty
James Richardson
Special Feature: Behind the Seams with James Richardson
Sarah Ruth Jacobs, Luke Waltzer, and Steve Brier
Teaching Communication to Medical Students in a Virtual World
Susan Lowes, Gillian Hamilton, Vicki Hochstetler, and SeungOh Paek
Digital Close Reading: TEI for Teaching Poetic Vocabularies
Kate Singer
Incorporating the Virtual into the Physical Classroom: Online Mastery Quizzes as a Blended Assessment Strategy
Kyle Beidler and Lauren Panton
Tool Tips
-
Xtranormal for Educators
October 2, 2012
Michael J. Cripps, University of New England
Animated characters reflect on the potential uses of Xtranormal’s text to speech software in the freshman composition classroom. Also, a sample assignment is provided.
-
Collaboration Awareness Tool (Euro-CAT) for Communication, Coordination and Knowledge Convergence in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)
September 28, 2012
Margarida Romero, ESADE / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Professors at the biggest university in Spain propose using the Collaboration Awareness Tool (EURO-CAT) to track the hourly activities of a project’s collaborators.
-
Technologues and Pedagogues: How an Instructional Technologist and an Instructor Transformed a Course and Improved Student Writing
September 25, 2012
Baynard Bailey, Vassar College
Natalie Friedman, New York UniversityA faculty member and an instructional designer discuss their incorporation of Wordpress in a sixty student literature course.
Reviews
-
Learning Technology as Infrastructure for Innovation
April 7, 2013
Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist at The Library of Congress and Digital History Instructor at American University
Marjee Chmiel, Educational Technology Specialist at The Smithsonian Science Education CenterIn this review, concepts introduced in Steven Johnson’s book Where Good Ideas Come From are used to determine how educational systems and learning technologies can best foster innovation.
-
Knowledge Under Pressure
September 5, 2012
Amanda French, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
David Weinberger’s new book Too Big to Know convincingly argues that the era of expertise has ended.
Teaching Fails
-
How Could You Let That Happen?: Student Expectations for Blog Monitoring
April 4, 2013
Mark D. Pepper, Utah Valley University
Let technology teach you how your students perceive the temporal expectations of digital communications.
-
Classroom Rules
August 24, 2012
Renee McGarry, Sotheby’s Institute of Art
Communicate your expectations to your students—and to yourself.
-
WikiFAIL: Students and the Orthodoxy of Practice in the Classroom
May 7, 2012
Kimon Keramidas, Bard Graduate Center
Recognizing and adapting to student tolerance of the integration of technology in the classroom.
Assignments
-
Authentic Hybridity: Remix and Appropriation as Multimodal Composition
March 17, 2013
Marina Hassapopoulou, University of Florida
Students are asked to choose a video and a picture/image online that represents them and to write a reflection explaining their choice and how they might remix it.
-
Thinking Critically about Technology in the Classroom: Assignment Design for Pre-Service Teachers
March 7, 2013
Amanda M. Greenwell, Central Connecticut State University
This reflection examines two writing assignments within the context of the course design insofar as their success in prompting pre-service teachers to think critically about the use of educational technology in their discipline-specific pedagogy.
-
Designing Accidents: Advocating Aleatory Research Methods in New Media Pedagogy
February 18, 2013
Kyle P. Vealey, Purdue University
Jeffrey M. Gerding, Purdue UniversityThis assignment sequence advocates the use of aleatory research methods in new media pedagogy.
Tags
apprenticeship bibliography blogging collaboration collaborative learning collaborative research collaborative teaching composition constructivist learning Copyright course design Dante digital humanities digital media Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) education engagement Fair Use First Amendment Google Apps history of philosophy human-computer interaction information visualization instructional design interactive technology learning Lenz v. Universal literature marginalia media studies mobile technology multimedia networks new media online search strategies pedagogy philosophy reading Research Methods response screencast social networks technology video Web 2.0
WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck requires Flash Player 9 or better.
Footer #1 Widget
This is an example of a widget area that you can place text to describe a product or service. You can also use other WordPress widgets such as recent posts, recent comments, a tag cloud or more.
Footer #2 Widget
This is an example of a widget area that you can place text to describe a product or service. You can also use other WordPress widgets such as recent posts, recent comments, a tag cloud or more.
Footer #3 Widget
This is an example of a widget area that you can place text to describe a product or service. You can also use other WordPress widgets such as recent posts, recent comments, a tag cloud or more.
Footer #4 Widget
This is an example of a widget area that you can place text to describe a product or service. You can also use other WordPress widgets such as recent posts, recent comments, a tag cloud or more.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
