On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Holly Kruse <holly.kruse@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm teaching a two-week long intersession short course called "Using Social Media" during spring intersession, and I'd love some ideas for assignments and topics to cover. It's not an online course. I've taught much more theoretical, historical, etc. semester-long courses on digital media/CMC, but this class is meant to be quite applied. I'm having the students read Nancy Baym's Personal Connections in the Internet Age and Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody, and the students will write a paper, but I need to fill three hours a day for two weeks, so any suggestions are most welcome!
The faculty developer in me can't help but ask: What are the goals of the course? How do you want students to be changed? It's awful hard to recommend content or methods without knowing those things! (Incidentally, I enjoyed Nancy Baym's book very much and think it would be really good as a textbook in relevant courses.) Kevin