Collaborative Peer Review: Gathering the Academy’s Orphans | Literacies “…revolutionary leaders cannot be falsely generous, nor can they manipulate. Whereas the oppressor elites flourish by trampling the people underfoot, the revolutionary leaders can flourish only in communion with the people.” ~ Paulo Friere I am the editor of a peer reviewed online journal, and I care little for peer review. I care little for any evaluative, assessment practice. Grades have always been meaningless to me. Hybrid Pedagogy is an experiment in publishing that could be seen as a digital humanities venture, or a playful approach to new form scholarly publishing; and indeed I’ve talked with Jesse, the journal’s innovator, about our trafficking in those terms. This means being open to submissions of all shapes and sizes, from academic to editorial, from research-driven exposition to personal narrative. There can be no thumbs-down in critical pedagogy. Our editorial process is first and foremost collaborative. In many ways, I am an orphan of the academy. And listening is all.
Hacking Composition with Prezi — Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Welcome to the DRC’s First Hack Series! Over the next two weeks, we’ll be exploring the use of online software in a composition classroom. This four-post series, developed and composed by Dr. Paulina Bounds, an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Tennessee Tech University, will chart her experience using Prezi software as a composition platform with first-year students. You’ll hear how she employed Prezi to hack the traditional essay, what her students gained from the project and what they struggled with, and, most importantly, how Prezi can facilitate better writing and collaboration among students. But first, we’d like to introduce Dr. Meet Paulina Bounds Paulina Bounds received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in Sociolinguistics and Language Variation. Project Snapshot In this project, the students will investigate a music artist. After that, they will perform the first task of the project, which is an annotated bibliography. Stay tuned.
New Liberal Arts in Simple HTML Snarkmarket/Revelator Press Introduction - Timothy Carmody and Robin Sloan Timothy Carmody and Robin Sloan “Can we not devise a system of liberal education which shall find its foundations in the best things of the here and now? Literature and art are all about us; science and faith offer their daily contributions; history is in the making to-day; industry pours forth its wares; and children, no less than adults, are sharing in the dynamic activities of contemporary social life . Not in the things of the past, but in those of the present, should liberal education find its beginnings as well as its results.” — David Snedden, “What Of Liberal Education?” This book began as a blog. And that conversation started with Jason Kottke, the blogger who coined a phrase, “liberal arts 2.0,” that made us wonder: What might that mean? Pile on some posts at Snarkmarket by the two of us and our co-blogger Matt Thompson, and threads began to form. You might be wondering: Why bother? Andrew Fitzgerald Now.
Proudly Fraudulent: An Interview With MoMA’s First Poet Laureate, Kenneth Goldsmith Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) is an American poet. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb, teaches Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and is Senior Editor of PennSound. He hosted a weekly radio show at WFMU from 1995 until June 2010. (The above introductory paragraph was lifted directly from the Wikipedia page on Kenneth Goldsmith, except for the last sentence. Mark Allen: In your new book Seven American Deaths and Disasters you've transcribed radio and television reports of national tragedies like JFK's assassination and Michael Jackson's death. Kenneth Goldsmith: These transcriptions are from airchecks of major disasters unfolding in real time. I recently learned Werner Herzog teaches a screenwriting class where a required reading is The Warren Commission Report on JFK's assassination, which he calls "the ultimate crime story" and an excellent example of a screenplay based entirely on how it's written, and it's a government document. Michelle Obama's shoes.
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