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Welcome to "Know the Medium". In the second edition of this course, one of the improvements I wanted to make was the addition of a personal blog component.
Of all my courses, this experiment makes the most sense for a media literacy course. While I'm not ready to abandon our "paper media journal" (you were all so excited about the new journals!) I think a blog is the perfect avenue to discuss, reflect, respond to a media that is (like the rest of our lives and culture) being transformed daily by the digital paradigm shift. Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Xanga, Limewire, podcasts, videocasts, RSS feeds, Google Earth, pop up ads ... the list is enormous. No longer does a media literacy course confine itself to TV, print media and newspapers.
I'm hoping that the blog experiment will allow us some really meaningful, engaged communication about the media. I anticipate students linking to a podcast, a website, another blog, two competing versions of the same newstory, a YouTube video they would like to comment on, an audio file of a song they would like to analyze.
So, please jump into this experiment...and start blogging!
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