critical pedagogy
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Read More: Pitzer Parent’s Weekend
I will be presenting two “lessons” from my work about and on YouTube to parents and students at Pitzer this weekend. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apZ2EBatr6Y&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I taught a course on and about YouTube,…
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Read More: Animating Archives (W)rap Sheet
This was one of the best conferences I ever attended. The take home message for future conference organizers is hard to replicate: 1) carefully chosen speakers 2) given ample time…
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Read More: Travels & Travails in Digital Media: From Blog 2 Page to Screen 2 Santa CruzI begin with a video (where I say among other things that I’ve been working for two years on a project about teaching, writing about, and publishing/presenting in the digital…
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Read More: Laura Wexler, Chinese Photo, and Forced ForgettingLaura Wexler, the Chair of Women’s Studies at Yale and also an esteemed professor of American Studies and photo history, presented an amazing paper on Chinese photography this weekend at…
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Read More: On Publishing my YouTube “book” on-line
Tomorrow I will be visiting Tara McPherson’s graduate course on something like “theories and practices of new media,” and she has asked me to present, quickly, some of the difficult…
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Read More: It Came from Kuchar
Got a chance to see It Came from Kuchar at Outfest. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyOvLS8JnBI&hl=en&fs=1&] The documentary does little more than let the brothers, their films, and fans speak for themselves. And what…
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Read More: On Michael Wesch’s WhateverI greatly enjoyed watching Michael Wesch’s Towards a New Future of Whatever. The two of us share a YouTube project based on pedagogy and student interaction (as an Anthropologist his…
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Read More: Dueling BanjosI get this eerie, bored feeling that internet scholars play but don’t listen. Myself included. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8&hl=en&fs=1&] Where boosters see roses: See Howard Rheingold, Vernacular Video in Culture and Education. Snarks…
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Read More: The Safety Dance
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orukqxeWmM0&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] My blog reader (Vienna) has been over-stuffed with videos of culture jams. The song above is thanks to Open Culture. “Last Thursday, in London’s Trafalgar Square, a big crowd…
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Read More: Learning from Fred: Published at TCRIt appears this commentary was published in September. Since you have to pay to see it at Teacher’s College Record, here’s a version for free: In this commentary, I will…