Category: Film & Media Culture

Integrating Blogging

Heather Stafford / / Assess & Respond, Blogging, Connect & Participate, Film & Media Culture

This is the second screencast published on this site that is based on an interview Alex Chapin did with Prof. Louisa Stein from the Film and Media Culture department.  In this screencast Prof. Stein discusses her course on Millennial Media.  In this course, students were required to create their own blogs and to post to Twitter.

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To encourage students to read each other’s work, Prof. Stein created “blog collectives” and required students to comment on the blogs of students in their collective.  An additional site was set up for the course that aggregated posts from all student blogs using the FeedWordPress plugin.

Course Hub Review

Heather Stafford / / Biology, Course Management, Curriculum Placement, Film & Media Culture, Knowledge, Literary Studies, Political Science, Share

The Course Hub is a meta-platform for aggregating resources for a given course across a variety of platforms including WordPress and Moodle.  Below is a screencast showing how the Course Hub has been used in courses this fall.

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Integrating Moodle and WordPress

Heather Stafford / / Collaboration, Course Management, Curriculum Placement, Discussion, Feedback, Film & Media Culture, Formative Assessment, Knowledge, Share, Summative Assessment

Louisa Stein is an assistant professor of Film and Media Culture who used both Moodle and WordPress in the spring of 2011 for a course on the “Aesthetics of the Moving Image.”  Prof. Stein used WordPress for the public face of this course and Moodle for the weekly outline of readings, online discussion and assignment submissions.  Watch the screencast below for more details. Continue reading “Integrating Moodle and WordPress”

Moving Away from Paper: Annotating and Grading Digital Documents – Jason Mittell & James Morrison

Heather Stafford / / Feedback, Film & Media Culture, IPE, Political Science, Stories, Summative Assessment

Jason Mittell (Film & Media Culture) and James Morrison (Political Science) are faculty at Middlebury who are moving towards completely paperless teaching and research.  Both cite similar reasons for preferring electronic versions of papers, articles and even books.  Digital documents are simply easier to organize and access when everything else you do is on your laptop.  Having your students submit electronic versions of their assignments means that you can retain a definitive copy of all your students’ work which is handy when you need to write references, find model essays from past classes to guide your current students or search for evidence of plagiarism.  This case study will focus on receiving and grading electronic versions of student papers.

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