Digital culture
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Risk, Reward, and Digital Writing
Digital culture
Autocorrect is tyranny. It is interruption of thought, of speech, of creation, a condition for — and sometimes a prohibition against — my voice being heard. When I type “phone-less” and autocorrect changes it to
Introducing Digital Humanities Work to Undergraduates: An Overview
Digital culture
You are already a digital humanist, whether or not you know it. Digital humanities has exploded in popularity over the last decade, as evidenced by the creation of many different types of grants
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The Standards of Critical Digital Pedagogy
Critical Digital Pedagogy CFP
This article is a response submitted for our series [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/critical-digital-pedagogy-cfp/] about critical digital pedagogy. See the original CFP for details [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/cfp-critical-digital-pedagogy/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Educational
Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 2: Becoming Books
Digital culture
On Tuesday, June 3, Hybrid Pedagogy released an announcement and CFP [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/cfp-generative-literature-project/] related to the first long-form project to be undertaken by Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing. Two weeks later,
The Open, Interactive Music Theory Textbook
Crowdsourcing
This Summer, Hybrid Pedagogy launched a new long-form publishing venture, spearheaded by Robin Wharton [http://www.robinwharton.com/]and Kris Shaffer [http://kris.shaffermusic.com]: Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing [http://www.hybridpedagogy.org/#publishing]
Technology 101: What Do We Need To Know About The Future We're Creating?
Digital culture
Howard Rheingold brought this piece to our attention after Jesse and Sean published “Is it Okay to Be a Luddite [http://learning.instructure.com/2014/06/is-it-okay-to-be-a-luddite/]” on Instructure’s Keep Learning blog.
Is It Okay to Be a Luddite?
Digital culture
This piece was originally published [http://learning.instructure.com/2014/06/is-it-okay-to-be-a-luddite/] on Instructure’s Keep Learning blog. When it posted, we received a message from Howard Rheingold (NetSmart [http://rheingold.com/books/
Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 1: The Work of Humanism
Digital culture
On Tuesday, June 3, Hybrid Pedagogy released an announcement and CFP [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/cfp-generative-literature-project/] related to the first long-form project to be undertaken by Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing. In the coming
CFP: The Generative Literature Project
Digital culture
Frederick and I are unlikely friends. We met as faculty members at Clark Atlanta University. We didn’t really know each other that well when we worked together, but after he left to
Taking the ‘No’ Out of Innovation
Digital culture
Innovate: French innover, from Old French, from Latin innovāre, innovāt-, to renew : in-, intensive pref.; in- + novāre, to make new (from novus, new). ~ adapted from OED online [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/innovate] I
Pursuing a Social Media Policy that Supports Academic Freedom
Digital culture
Last year, my then-employer, Charleston Southern University [http://www.csuniv.edu/] (CSU), instituted a new social media policy. Though I believe it was largely unintended, that policy (which is still available on CSU’
Of Machine Guns and MOOCs: 21st Century Engineering Disasters
Digital culture
Victorian hubris opined, “All that can be invented has been invented [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Holland_Duell],” and so we entered the 20th century emboldened with a Titanic which was unsinkable,
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A Letter from a Hybrid Student
Critical Pedagogy
The rise of stuff likehybrid pedagogy [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Hybridity_2.html], open source content, and massive open online courses (MOOCs [http://ric.libguides.com/content.php?pid=151305&
Memes are the New Canon
Digital culture
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from“The American Scholar” [http://emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm]: > The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so