The World Through Music

Recently I was invited to join Dr. Robin Armstrong’s World Music Survey FYS class as they gathered to view each other’s video presentations. Yes, you read that correctly. I visited a music class to watch their video presentations or, as it has been dubbed, the ”First Annual World Music Survey Film Festival.” The goal of the project was [...]

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The Conceptual Classroom

As we’re all still pondering ways to adapt, embrace, make peace with or otherwise incorporate technology into courses,  much is being written about the tech-savvy younger generation coming up. Notice I didn’t say “technology into the classroom.” Teaching and learning spills beyond the classroom walls even for the most casual user of Blackboard, and courses [...]

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Onward State Revisited

In my last post I highlighted the Chronicle interview with the student creators of the Onward State blog (Penn State University). Now, Greg Ferenstein at Mashable.com has expanded the story in The Future Newsroom: Lean, Open and Social Media-Savvy . Ferenstein digs deeper into the disparities between the student-run blog and the established campus paper, [...]

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