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In a humanities course, how do you ensure that a majority of the students are doing the assigned readings for a majority of the class meetings?  Here are some common methods: Compile a reading list of young adult fiction such … Continue reading →

In a modification of the “Podcast Around the Bay” project described in a previous post, I asked students in my Introduction to Writing and Digital Publication course to document places and in so doing connect these places to arguments by … Continue reading →

Any reader of this post is likely to know that WordPress is a popular blogging platform. So popular, in fact, that it is often used to publish other new media genres, such as static websites and content management systems. Occasionally, … Continue reading →

As readers of young-adult science fiction eagerly await the February 2013 publication of Cory Doctorow’s novel Homeland, the sequel to 2007’s Little Brother, student teams in my Fall 2012 Internet Culture course jumped the gun a bit by reading the … Continue reading →

This podcast series was created by students in my Winter 2012 Internet Culture in the Information Society course.  The students visited public places in the San Francisco Bay Area and used their smart phones to orally record what they were … Continue reading →

This series of enhanced podcasts was created by first-year students in my Spring 2012 Cosmology and Controversy course at Santa Clara University.  Each podcast compares a non-western culture’s cosmology to a western cosmology.  As specified in the Instructions, student teams … Continue reading →