More Education Bloggers

Just a quick pointer to an education blogger I found via Twitter. Dr. Delaney Kirk is a professor of management and the author of Taking Back the Classroom.

She offers some useful suggestions about the relationship between digital media and pedagogy, including a recent pointer to this article by Lisa M. Lane on course management systems and pedagogy. As someone who finds most course management systems (CMS) unwieldy, I'm probably not the best advocate for CMSs such as Blackboard and WebCT, so it's worth checking out Lane's perspective.

Update: While I was revising the syllabus tonight--yep, I'm a procrastinator--I came across another helpful resource, Project New Media Literacies, a research-based initiative associated with MIT's Comparative Media Studies program. The program was headed up for some time by Henry Jenkins, who is the author of a number of texts we will be reading, including this "white paper" report funded by the MacArthur Foundation.

Update 2: Another resource: Dan Gillmor's Center for Citizen Media. As we'll discuss in class, blogs have provoked a number of debates about what counts as journalism, how we become "media literate," or even what media literacy means. In particular, I'm interested in discussing Gillmor's "Principles for a New Media Literacy," which we might adapt for our own student populations.