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Producing Audiovisual Knowledge: Documentary Video Production and Student Learning in the American Studies Classroom
Posted January 18th, 2009 by Bernie Cook, Georgetown University
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Traditionally, academic institutions have segregated
multimedia production from disciplinary study. Bernie Cook wondered
what his American Studies students would learn from working
collaboratively to produce documentary films based on primary sources,
and what he in turn might find out about their learning in the process.
Students created documentary films on local history, and wrote
reflections on their creative and critical process. Not only did
students report tremendous engagement with the topics and sources for
their projects, they also indicated satisfaction at being able to
screen their work for an audience. By allowing his students to become
producers of content, Cook enables them to participate fully in the
intellectual work of American Studies and Film Studies.
Shaping a Culture of Conversation: The Discussion Board and Beyond
Posted January 7th, 2009 by Edward J. Gallagher, Lehigh University
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What happens when the discussion board goes from being just an
assignment to a springboard for intellectual community? Foreseeing many benefits to
cultivating discussion among his English students, Ed Gallagher worked
to develop frameworks to articulate why discussion is not only central
to the learning process in the classroom but also beyond its walls. A
higher level of critical analysis, reflection, and a synthesis of
multiple perspectives turned class discussions into artful
conversations.
CFP: CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) Conference: Digital Archive Fever, November 2007
Posted May 16th, 2007 by Jennifer Curran, Academic Commons
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We pass along this call for papers which has appeared on a number of listservs...
CHArt (Computers and the History of Art)
23rd Annual Conference
DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER
Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007
London England - Venue to be confirmed
Museums, galleries, archives, libraries and media organisations such as publishers and film and broadcast companies, have traditionally mediated and controlled access to cultural resources and knowledge. What is the future of such "top-down" institutions in the age of "bottom-up" access to knowledge and cultural artifacts through what is generally known as Web 2.0 (encompassing YouTube, Bittorrent, Napster, Wikipedia, Google, MySpace and more)? Will such institutions respond to this threat to their cultural hegemony by resistance or adaptation? How can a museum or a gallery or, for that matter, a broadcasting company, appeal to an audience which has unprecedented access to cultural resources? How can institutions predicated on a cultural economy of scarcity compete in an emerging state of cultural abundance?
