I don’t think I’ve written about this, but I am obsessed with large lecture pedagogy. Although a sizeable number of students in my intro class seem to really like it (although liking isn’t the point necessarily) and I get good ratings, I have always been interested in how to be a better teacher. The thing …
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(this is not a post about football, so stick with me) As some of you know, last Saturday the New England Patriots won their 16th and final game of the regular season, making them the first team to go undefeated in the regular season since the 1972 Miami Dolphins. The ’72 Dolphins were the first …
As I may have mentioned somewhere below, writing has been my most daunting task since becoming chair (to be fair, this was complicated in the summer by virtue of moving). Mostly it’s a time issue, but though it is also something of a concentration issue. To write well and creatively, one must forget (if momentarily) …
File this under “probably not news to lots of people up here.” This past week in proseminar we discussed competing historical accounts of the field of Communication Studies (recognizing that even what counts as “in” and “out” of that field is debatable). Naturally, one of the questions that arose concerned the differences between the field …
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I don’t often post ads in this space, but this one is special: — The Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University invites applications for a tenure track position to begin on August 1, 2008, in the area of Media and Public Policy. Although the appointment is expected to be made at …
Some time ago, I mentioned the release of Charles Acland’s edited collection Residual Media on University of Minnesota Press. Well, it’s getting some attention. Will Straw’s piece figures prominently in a recent Henry Jenkins blog post, and Google Alerts (is it vanity or simply keeping track of one’s own online presence? you be the judge) …
I’ve always said Canadians love conferences, and this week is an intense one, with me not even leaving town. T&W: I’m at a workshop for my Augmented Reality Research Team (well, it’s not my team; I’m just on it) Th: [CTRL]: TAS : Technology : Art : Society — organized by a grad student collective …
