Posts Tagged ‘social media’

Pre-electracy Problem (post-literate situation)

online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
Jan 31 2010

 


 

    (recommended reading) Divided Attention. By David Glenn. The Chronicle Review 31 Jan 2010.

  • Disciplinary / Institutional perceptions; highly relevant for our experiment.
     
  • Indeed eager to know your perspective; strongly encourage discussion (below) or a blog entry — participation / blogging e.c.
    • 02-Feb: see imaginary exchange below for prompt

 

 
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Daily Impasse

online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
Jan 30 2010

 

  • Title: “To Go Online, Or Not”
  • by Chris Onstad, Achewood.com
  • via Will Burdette
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  • Q. → potential task (or responsibility?) for electracy?
    • insights about impulse-behavior, decision-making?
      intervene with “Flash reasonat which moment in feedback loop?

 
 

Praxis

online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
Jan 10 2010
    praxis (— noun; plural: praxis or praxes)

    1. practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills.
    2. convention, habit, or custom.
    3. a set of examples for practice.

 

(from syllabus)
Blog Entries (10 minimum; 200 words. Credit/no credit assigned.)

Every student will create and maintain a blog throughout the semester, beginning week 2 and due each Wednesday except when noted (e.g. project weeks). Entries are informal and ungraded, except for credit. This is an on-going “Research Journal, ” testing ideas and compiling “materials” for the projects: associative links and media, questions and hypotheses; observations and insights—particularly connections between media within and outside of class.

Elaborating upon this, “orientation” and specific suggestions about blogging below.
 

(update) Additional tip from Monday’s class in comment.
 
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