Approaches to Plagiarism
When I began teaching, I assumed that I would probably see a case of plagiarism once in a few years. I mean, how often could this happen? This presumption was based on my own undergraduate experiences....
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Social Media and Transformative Access
This week I finally read Adam Banks’ inspirational call to reassess “meaningful access to technology” in Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground. (Ok, ok I know I am 6 years late.)...
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Notes from ICLLC, Pune, India
From the 10th – 12th of December, I attended the International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture in Pune, India. The conference was organized by the Forum for Innovation and...
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This term promises to be an exciting one in terms of Digital Humanities and New Media Studies. I will be posting more throughout the term but here is a preview: 1) Holistic Supports for the UF...
View ArticleTalking about Plagiarism, via Imgur
I came across a little flare up on Imgur that might serve as a useful introduction when you are talking about Plagiarism with your undergraduate class. Some context first, for the uninitiated: Imgur...
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Interface 2013 at UF
On 26th April, the University of Florida held Interface 2013, a day long event which brings instructors together to discuss pedagogy for a digital age. I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to...
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Completion Report for the UF Digital Collections Grant
Completion Report Prepared By: Dhanashree Thorat (This report can be downloaded as a PDF here) The projects outlined in this report were undertaken as a part of a mini grant titled “Holistic Supports...
View ArticleStudents as Critical Users of New Media (Interface 2013)
I now have the video for my Interface 2013 talk, “Students as Critical Users of New Media.” (Video recorded by Academic Technology, UF) Accompanying powerpoint: Download (PDF, 1.16MB) And my...
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The Hyperloop in a Technical Writing Class
The Hyperloop. (Tesla) Elon Musk’s recent announcement about the Hyperloop gave me some new material to use in future Technical/Professional Writing classes. The Hyperloop is a new form of subsonic...
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Stephen Hawking, Black Holes, and Technical Writing
In my last post, I wrote about how the Hyperloop can be used as an example in a Technical/Professional Writing class. In this post, I want to continue along those lines and write about another real...
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Knowledge Construction on Wikipedia: Part I
A pedagogy for the digital age must engage students in a critical study of the new media technologies that they use in their everyday lives. Students should be able to situate digital tools within...
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Knowledge Construction on Wikipedia: Part II
In my last post, I attempted to read Wikipedia from a critical digital pedagogy perspective. I discussed the two issues that we generally cover with students about using Wikipedia for research. The...
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Introducing WordPress for a class digital project
Introduction WordPress is better known as a blogging platform, but it also serves as a content management system (CMS). A CMS serves as the ‘back end’ of a website and allows a user to edit the content...
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Postcolonial Digital Humanities at THATCamp Florida 2014
I had an opportunity to attend THATCamp Florida 2014, thanks to the generous support of the UF Center for the Humanities and Public Sphere, and the Libraries. THATCAMP, The Humanities and Technology...
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DML 2014: Critical Digital Pedagogy
I am in Boston for the Digital Media and Learning conference this year! The conference has a great focus on “fostering participatory dialogue and linking theory, policy, and practice in the DML field”...
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The Oriental Monk Trope
In Virtual Orientalism, Jane Iwamura traces the figure of the ‘Oriental monk’ in American popular media as a form of Orientalism. Iwamura writes that the stereotype of the Oriental monk “must be...
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