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Bodies in Classrooms: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part I
Next year, over a hundred feminist scholars are slated to teach a new kind of online course—the first “MDCLE” or “massively distributed collaborative learning experiment”—tentatively titled “Feminist Dialogues on Technology." Drawing on the model of the “MOOC,” or the massively open online course, like the artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction courses at Stanford that have enrolled tens of thousands of students, this venture is also aimed at a v… more
Back to the Drawing Board
For people on the academic calendar, resolutions tend to be undertaken in the summer months rather than at the start of the new year in January. This summer I am picking up a pencil and rethinking my relationship to visual communication with a resolution to spend more time in the weeks to come drawing. I would urge others in the DML community to try to do the same. To prepare myself for this task, I’ve bought some sketchbooks and pencils for the first time in decades.… more
Learning from Kony 2012
In March of this year, as I taught my winter lecture class that focuses on Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online, I began to receive urgent e-mails from students about a viral video produced by a group called Invisible Children, which my undergraduates implored me to watch. A number of the messages came with warnings that it would require thirty minutes of my time and attention. A typical cautionary message read as follows: “you should really watch the whole thing in o… more