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I’ve adopted a travel metaphor as a way of structuring this course. We’re going on a roadtrip!
MoreTHE MISSED OPPORTUNITY
Working on this assignment three semesters later, I have the advantage—or perhaps disadvantage—of hindsight. We were hopeful in 2021 that pandemic measures would lead to new ways of doing things. Robert Arnove built on Arundhati Roy’s image of the “pandemic as a portal”: we would pass through it and, in the wake of the pandemic’s […]
MoreWHAT MAKES A STORY GOOD: THE STORY OF THE BOB STORY
In January 2021, when I first started working on Digital Storytelling, I asked my two older kids, then five and three, before bed one night, what makes a story and what makes a story good. Their answers immediately went to the books we were about to read. But with a little more probing, they were […]
MoreReimagined Digital Gatsby Lesson Plan
One edit that I really liked was the thought was how long this lesson was going to take. This unit is going to take more than one day. Moreover, it would be beneficial for the students to have a day where they review one another’s work in order to help them revise for clarity. Another […]
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