When I discuss the “Looking for Whitman” project, a multi-campus experiment in digital pedagogy sponsored by the NEH Office of the Digital Humanities, I often emphasize the place-based structure of the project. As part of it, four courses were offered in institutions located in cities in which Walt Whitman lived; students spent the Fall 2009 [...]
Hacking Together Egalitarian Educational Communities; Some Notes on the Looking for Whitman Project
by Matt on 28. May, 2010 in academia, pedagogy
Onward and Outward
by Matt on 17. Apr, 2010 in academia, conferences, pedagogy
“All goes onward and outward . . . . and nothing collapses” – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855) Last week’s student conference in Camden brought “Looking for Whitman” to a rousing, poignant close. Four months after the classes involved in the project had ended, students from the University of Mary Washington, Rutgers-Camden, and City [...]
Against Learning Management Systems
by Matt on 30. Mar, 2009 in academia, pedagogy
In a recent post on BavaTuesdays, Jim Groom called down a plague upon two corporate producers of learning management systems, Blackboard and Desire2Learn. After years of fighting Blackboard’s unreasonable patent lawsuits, Desire2Learn made news by proposing a donation of one million dollars to educational causes on the condition that Bb drop its lawsuit. The premise [...]
Edupunking the NY Times
by Matt on 31. Dec, 2008 in pedagogy
This is old news, I know, but I will not let this blog begin without acknowledgment of the fact that the New York Times declared edupunk, the new-media pedagogical ethos adumbrated by my good friend Jim Groom, one of its choices for The Buzzwords of 2008. In the spirit of edupunk and all of my [...]
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This is the blog of Matthew K. Gold, who teaches in the English Department at the New York City College of Technology and the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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