Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Blogging Tech Camp 2010

We're at Tech Camp 2010 at Syracuse University! Welcome back to blogging for me for this week at least.

I'll try to capture some slices of life from Tech Camp.

This morning (Tuesday) we're talking about Anne Wysocki's piece "Opening New Media to Writing" from the book _Writing New Media_ and also about the idea of digital ecologies.

One of the main points we are discussing is the way Wysocki links new media to materiality and material culture. We also noted how she doesn't just link new media to digitality.

Other topics:

How do we value and understand the new work produced and practice the "generous approaches to new texts" that she calls for on p. 23.

How do students and teachers "remediate" the new technology with the old?

Feenberg on system-congruent design and expressive design (21).

Discussion of how we design digital ecologies.

Discussion of Web 2.0. Identified by interactivity and interconnectivity. George: "The thing becomes your participation."

Twitter and Tweeting--we all have twitter accounts now. How can twitter be a way to engage students in writing and research? A way to encourage learning, sharing of information, and participation? We started to work on ideas for how to incorporate twitter into our classes.

more to come! Good to be back blogging.

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