New Media as a Platform for Integrative Learning: A Faculty Development Seminar

Spring 2010
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Every Tuesday from January 26 through April 20
Led by Dr. Gardner Campbell
Office: Academy for Teaching and Learning, Jones Library, Suite 206 / 710-3412 / gardner_campbell AT baylor.edu/
http://www.gardnercampbell.net

New Media: Knowing and Making

From the editors' preface:
Understanding new media is almost impossible for those who aren't actively involved in the experience of new media; for deep understanding, actually creating new media projects is essential to grasping their workings and poetics. The ideas described in these selections can open important new creative areas for beginners and professionals alike.

Main course sites:

These two URLs are very similar--what was I thinking?--so beware.
Our discussion forum (open to the public; registered guests can post): http://www.atlhub.net/baylor_nms_s10/
Our seminar motherblog (syndicates content from seminar members' blogs): http://courseblogs.atlhub.net/baylor_nms_s10

Blogs and social media:

Seminar members' blogs: use Baylor blog site at http://homepages.baylor.edu, or sign up at http://courseblogs.atlhub.net, or use either Wordpress.com or Blogger.com.
Social bookmarking at http://www.delicious.com
Twitter (unlocked, please) at www.twitter.com
Photos at Flickr.com

Tags:

For Delicious, Flickr, and your blogs, use this tag: baylor_nms_s10

For Twitter, use this shortened tag: #nms10

SYLLABUS (beta)

Primary print text: ''The New Media Reader'' (MIT Press, 2003).
NB: If you have a laptop/netbook, please bring it to each seminar meeting. If you do not have a laptop, see me and I will make other arrangements for you

1/26/10 Preface; J. Murray, "Introduction"; V. Bush, "As We May Think." Web 2.0 orientation and challenge. MOAD, Wesch, Robbie Dingo, Millicomputing.

2/2/10 Licklider, "Man/Computer Symbiosis"

2/9/10 Engelbart "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework"

2/16/10 Engelbart/English, "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect"

2/23/10 Nelson, "Computer Lib / Dream Machines"

3/2/10 Kay/Goldberg, "Personal Dynamic Media."
Local facilitators: David Ngong
Virtual facilitators:

3/9 SPRING BREAK

3/16/10 McLuhan, excerpts from Gutenberg Galaxy, also "The Medium is the Message" (from Understanding Media)
Local facilitators: Anne Bowery, Phyllis Tippit
Virtual facilitators:


3/23/10 Viola, "Will There Be Condominiums in Data Space?"
Local facilitators: Gabrielle Sutherland, David Hendon
Virtual facilitators:


3/30/10 Laurel, "The Six Elements and the Causal Relations Among Them" and "Star Raiders: Dramatic Interaction in a Small World"
Local facilitators: Megan Johnson, Sandy Bennett
Virtual facilitators:


4/6/10 Turkle, "Video Games and Computer Holding Power"
Local facilitators: Jacq Duke, Jason Whitlark
Virtual facilitators:


4/13/10 Chapter 7, "Learning Webs," from Ivan Illich's 'Deschooling Society' (online at http://deschoolingsociety.digress.it/learning-webs/).
Local facilitators: Addy Meira
Virtual facilitators:

4/20/10 Papert, "Mindstorms," "Why School Reform is Impossible."

4/27/10 McCloud, "Time Frames." For further reading, Tim Berners-Lee, "The World Wide Web"
Local facilitators: Chris Hansen, Tim Logan
Virtual facilitators: Alan Levine