Wednesday, October 24, 2007
MySpace Class Project
Here's just one of many examples of how instructors are using the virtual world for classroom projects. A fellow graduate student at LSU (Daniel Mangiavellano) created a group project in his ENGL 3022 course that requested the class to create myspaces pages for various authors. Making use of this informal communication site, Mangiavellano was able to merge a "trendy" communication method with pedagogical objectives. Last time I spoke with him about this project, he was writing an article on the experience. It will be interesting to see what develops. In the meantime, we can be virtual friends with Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, and Matthew Arnold (to name a few)!
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This sounds really interesting, Rachel. Would Daniel and his students be willing to give us a link to any of these potential literary "friends"? I'm going to use blogs somehow next semester and I'd love to see what he did.
Lilly, I made the title of the post a link to Dan's myspace page. Once you click on the title, you will be taken to his page and will see all of his "friends" -- which are actually his group projects. From there, you click on all the individual projects and see how each group built their pages. It is very interesting... and Dan did mention that the paper that was connected to the project was more important than the students' myspace pages. I found out about this assignment by chance -- running into one of my old students who was in the middle of working on it. (She was in the 'Virginia Woolf' group, so I am partial to that page.)
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