Otis Faculty

video of speakers from the conference

"visual literacy" and understandings of visual culture essential outcomes of the contemporary liberal arts curriculum.

excellent overview of YouTube phenomena

This is about delicious, but Diigo is similar. But Diigo goes FURTHER with the addition of groups.

Abstract: As social network sites like MySpace and Facebook emerged, American teenagers began adopting them as spaces to mark identity and socialize with peers. Teens leveraged these sites for a wide array of everyday social practices - gossiping, flirting, joking around, sharing information, and simply hanging out. While social network sites were predominantly used by teens as a peer-based social outlet, the unchartered nature of these sites generated fear among adults. This dissertation documents my 2.5-year ethnographic study of American teens' engagement with social network sites and the ways in which their participation supported and complicated three practices - self-presentation, peer sociality, and negotiating adult society.

issue with many many interesting articles about New Media Technologies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

This page as a link to the Report of the Task Force on the Arts, which makes a case for making the arts more central to core of the educational mission of the University. It is an example of how the ways artists and designers know and understand the world will be increasingly taught as a new literacy in the liberal arts.

VKP is a five-year project aimed at improving the quality of college and university teaching through a focus on both student learning and faculty development in technology-enhanced environments.