m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

For your reading pleasure, I offer this month’s teaching carnival.
You’ll find many good posts on reading:
In Reading Without Steroids, Working Blue asks what kind of reader are you? Meanwhile, at Techsophist, Lanette Cadle talks of Rereading, revisiting, especially about making connections while reading, now and in seminars past. Then, Rebecca Moore Howard offers [...]

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St Joseph Missouri, originally uploaded by Marcia H.

Map of St Joseph, MO

I am giving a talk tomorrow at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph Missouri.
I am posting this entry from Flickr. I’ll be updating this [...]

I am so excited. I just received an invitation from the Prairie Lands Writing Project here in Missouri to be their guest speaker at a Saturday workshop the end of September. I’ll put together a 4 hour workshop to help them kick off their digital media initiative this year. It pays a [...]

As I stated in my last post, I’m giving a talk today at the Missouri Writing Project Summer Institute.
My plan is as follows:
First 20

briefly review what blogging is and mention the other forms of blogging being done
highlight a few place blogs since they are writing about place this summer
discuss places they can go [...]

The teachers in the MWP summer institute are writing about place. I wanted to find a few bloggers who are writing about place and I found Tim Lindgren’s blog. His blog is a project on place blogging and he has quite a few place bloggers linked in his blogrolls. They might also [...]

This is my last post from DMAC. I had a fabulous time. I would recommend it to all who want to learn more about digital media. Cindy Selfe and Scott DeWitt are such wonderful people and fantastic instructors. I enjoyed hearing from all of the great scholars in the field. [...]

Issues of Race, Class, Culture, Sexuality, and Gender
Pam Takayoshi
Jeff Grabill
Samantha Blackmon
Jonathan Alexander
Some of the recommended texts:
When Race Breaks Out
Social Change In Diverse Teaching Contexts : Touchy Subjects And Routine Practices by Nancy G. Barron, Nancy M. Grimm, Sibylle Gruber, Editors.
My notes are a little sketchy, but below is some of what we talked about:
Jonathan: [...]

Using Others’ Online Work: Issues of Copyright, Plagiarism, and Research
Danielle DeVoss introduced the presentation — she was on a movie that they showed.
Heidi A. McKee and Jim Porter talked together about copyright and plagiarism.
Some of the additional resources they referred to include:
Chilling Effects organization helps people respond to cease and desist letters.
Some Like it Hot
Introduction [...]

I just umm-ed and ahh-ed my way through answering questions for a DMAC video, and it occurs to me that in addition to teaching how to compose with digital media, that we could also teach how to be recorded more effectively on digital media. For example, being at ease in front of the camera, [...]

The second session of the day is: Keeping the Focus on Rhetoric
Pat Sullivan, Lisa Ann Robertson, Ben McCorkle, Susan Delagrange
Lisa Ann Robertson uses a classical rhetorical lens to teach digital media. She studies Romanticism, the body, and cyberculture. When she teaches digital media, she teaches it *strong* at the very beginning of the [...]