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Mary Morgan

The Dead Media Project - 0 views

shared by Mary Morgan on 10 Apr 12 - Cached
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    *as referenced by Henry Jenkins The Dead Media Project consists of a database of field Notes written and researched by members of the Project's mailing list. The Dead Media List consists of occasional email to that stout band of souls who have declared some willingness to engage in this recherche field of study.
Jonathan Lederman

Why Can't We Be Friends? Social Media Boundaries Between Teachers and Students | NEA Today - 2 views

  • The key is finding a way to take advantage of the learning opportunities social media provides while striking the proper balance between protecting kids and preserving professional boundaries and First Amendment rights.
  • “teachers should not post things that are private and confidential about a student.”
    • John Fenn
       
      common sense? legal/ethical boundaries?
    • Jonathan Lederman
       
      may not be common sense if an individual doesn't realize their message is public. For example, if I think i'm sending a private message on Facebook to an individual who legally/ethically should be the recipient, and it ends up on their public wall, that may be a misunderstanding of how Facebook works. The message composer understands that the message is supposed to be private (whether it be by common sense or professional training), but doesn't understand how the communicative transmission works ... 
  • Kids don’t need to see my backyard, or know what I say to my wife over dinner. When I have fun with friends and family, that’s a different me, and it’s important that I make that distinction,” he explains. “Being a professional means that I project the values of my profession and my employer when communicating with students.”
    • Jonathan Lederman
       
      everyone uses social differently. some individuals may not post this type of information. others may post it and don't mind who reads it. others could feel that their facebook profile has a specific type of information on it that should only be available to certain people.  Even if this individual is a professional that projects the values of the profession and employer when communicating with students, that doesn't mean that the individual cannot post such communications on a (semi)public forum like a Facebook page. 
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  • weigh the safety and educational benefits of social media.
    • John Fenn
       
      multiple kinds of "boundary considerations" here....
  • Teachers should have separate sites – one for work and one for personal use and the two should never cross paths.”
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    "Around the country, school districts are grappling over guidelines that would govern how - and whether - educators should use social media."
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    "Around the country, school districts are grappling over guidelines that would govern how - and whether - educators should use social media."
caseyi

Harvard, MIT partner to offer free online courses - 1 views

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    In a move that heightened competition in online education and brought more prestige to the still-fledgling field, Harvard University and MIT announced a partnership Wednesday to offer the public mainly free Internet classes.
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    Heard about this on NPR today, M.I.T. and Harvard are actually starting a non-profit and have already dumped $60 million into a project they call edX, intended to "improve, not replace, the campus experience." Should turn out to be an honorable donation to the global learning community. This is an interesting move towards providing free access to quality educational information. -Another article containing a press release: Engadget Article
John Fenn

Museum of Contemporary Photography - 1 views

  • From schoolgirl to senior citizen, punk to yuppie, rural white American to urban Hispanic, Lee’s personas traverse age, lifestyle, and culture. Part sociologist and part performance artist, Lee infiltrates these groups so convincingly that in individual photographs it is difficult to distinguish her from the crowd
    • John Fenn
       
      obvious connection to Cindy Sherman's work, but with the added (and quite rich) element of immersion in the "real" social world...
  • Lee’s projects propose questions regarding identity and social behavior. Do we choose our social groups consciously? How are we identified by other people? Is it possible for us to move between cultures? Lee believes that “essentially life itself is a performance. When we change our clothes to alter our appearance, the real act is the transformation of our way of expression—the outward expression of our psyche.”
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    I'm interested in how Nikki S Lee crosses boundaries of her identity and how she can so easily move from one to the next. This is more easy for most people to do online where you don't have to physically become someone new.
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    It also sort of shows just how eager society is to classify and group others for their own convenience. Of course, Lee must be an amazing chameleon of an actress and participant/observant, but I am still surprised at how easily her groups will take to accepting what is essentially a deception or farce.
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