Just for future reference, here’s Mark Marino’s Know Thy Selfie essay assignment on Medium that came up today.
-Bethany…
Category: Initial Curriculum Ideas
Question for Feb. 20 Winter Institute
What element of your Cluster or LIB200 curriculum do you see yourself creating or revising in this NEH seminar? Are you considering developing a new assignment or activity, or mapping out a new theme/syllabus? Please post your response as a …
Curriculum Ideas
I am intrigued by the idea of teaching some more advanced and “scholarly” ideas to my LIB200. Today I am interested Karen’s idea of “the fetish.” I would need to bring my students up to speed on the concept using …
Initial Curriculum Ideas
The most essential idea I can think of for this semester’s LIB200 class at the end of Fall I, is the notion of humanity and what that means now and into the future. The reason I want to consider this …
Reflections on integrating materials into the classroom
The concerns that we are discussing are definitely part of my classes. In the Spring I’ll be teaching LIB200, which I teach as a US Empire class. Public health is an important aspect of our study, so I’ll be looking …
Initial Curriculum Ideas
One of the ideas that seems interesting is the evolution of technology- machines, first substituting the body, replacing to some extent the physical and the manual labor, then computers, substituting the mind, replacing some aspect of the mind- thinking machines, …
Cyborgs, Robots, & Cylons
I have been on a bit of a dystopia kick in my teaching as of late: The Walking Dead (both the graphic narratives and the AMC series) has been the focus for my Research Paper class, and I’ll be teaching …
Thoughts
I have been developing my ENG101 around issues of digital technologies and I can see a possible cluster emerging around these lines. I believe students would be interested in debating many of the issues we discussed today: introducing media refusal, …
The Robotics of Celebrity
My current cluster is dealing with the issue of “Fame” or “Celebrity,” so it is hard to see how I am going to fit in this idea of the robot or robotics, except as the celebrity is an artificial construct …
LIB 200 — initial curriculum idea — immersivity and vision
As I wrote in my response to the Grau article, I was really intrigued by the history of “Virtual Illusions” that Grau writes about. This is in part because it articulates so well with themes I am already teaching in …
