Posts Tagged ‘university

My latest post for PBS Mediashift looks at how participatory media tools such as CoveritLive can be used in the classroom. One of the challenges, particularly in large undergraduate classes, is turning the traditional academic lecture into more of a conversation. Rather than simply being empty vessels to be filled with knowledge, I wanted to [...]

Students at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC are trying out something different. Instead of doing an essay as part of a course in agroecology, they are producing a 12 to 15 minute podcast. It follows a larger interdisciplinary project on podcasting at the university I was involved with last year, which [...]


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