Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 08:19:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Raka Shome <rshome-AT-u.washington.edu>
Subject: RE: syllabus help/suggestions


hi --

is the website address for media educationfoundatin correct here? i was
trying to get in but there was no response...

thanks. 


On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Mary Keller wrote:

> Radhika,
> 
> I have just received a flyer from the Media Education Foundation and I'm
> guessing that you already know about it, but what they are doing seems
> to be an academic thinktank/activist tank for media and technology
> studies.  Their website is
> http://www.igc.apc.org/mef/mef.html
> 
> and they offer several video resources which are ethically employing and
> examining the power of video resources and other technology/media
> interfaces.  
> 
> After trying for the past semester to run an e-mail response list
> between my class in Scotland on "Ethnicity and Gender:  Building Blocks
> for a Critical Theory of Religion" with a course taught by Tom Craig and
> Maureen Connelly (dir. of Women's Studies at Brock University) on
> "Women, Men and the Body,"  I have received some feedback from students
> about how to run a constructive virtual classroom.  (And we were
> mini-techno with only an e-mail list):
> 
> 1)Single persons or teams responsible for creating a weekly "statement"
> that other students are then required to respond to.  
> 
> 2)Aggressive work at the beginning of the semester to encourage and
> facilitate participation by technophobes.
> 
> 3)Build in a reasonable reading load given the extra time required to
> use technology.
> 
> 
> 
> > ----------
> > From: 	Cyberdiva
> > Reply To: 	third-world-women-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> > Sent: 	Sunday, April 19, 1998 12:25 pm
> > To: 	third-world-women-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> > Cc: 	technology-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> > Subject: 	syllabus help/suggestions
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'll be teaching a grad seminar in "Communication, Technoscience and
> > Cyberculture" in Fall 1998, and I was wondering if any of you had
> > suggestions - readings, websites, your own original pieces online etc
> > -
> > for linking to my course website. I will be setting up a webring in
> > relation to this course as well and would appreciate it if those of
> > you
> > who teach courses with similar content and approach could let me know
> > if
> > you have syllabii and/or course material online. 
> > 
> > The course description as I have it now is up at
> > http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~radhik/courses/mcom780.html
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > r
> > 
> > _____________________________________
> > 
> > Radhika Gajjala
> > 
> > http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~radhik
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________
> > 
>