What does it mean to have too much exposure in the digital world? Dan, Tom, and I take on this topic in Episode 15 of Digital Campus. In a discussion that focuses largely on sites such as Facebook, we examine the current culture of self-exposure that seems to be taking root in the digital environment…
Sworn Virgins in the Classroom
Sworn virgins? What could this post be about? Last night I was incredibly fortunate to be able to host the Albanian author and documentary filmmaker Elvira Dones who screened her new documentary Sworn Virgins for our students and then led a discussion of the film. The film was really a perfect teaching tool. Because it…
Social Networks in the Classroom
Last week I attended a discussion of social networks in the classroom led by one of our new Assistant Professors in the English Department, Doug Eyman (his MSU homepage). In his presentation, Doug hit on what seems to be a central problem for those of us who are interested in ways we can use social…
Thanks Roy
What more fitting memorial to Roy Rosenzweig could there be than a digital archive? Roy was one of the main forces behind digital archiving, especially open digital archives, and so it is only right that there be a Roy Rosenzweig digital archive. Thanksroy.org is the place to go, deposit your memories of Roy, his life,…