Virtual Worlds
Cyberculture
Digital Communications
A friend of mine offers a course called MADD (Mathematics of Digital Data)
Massively Muti-Student Digital Learning
Digital Worlds
Norman Constantine
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Keith E Gatling <keith@gatling.us> wrote:
> Here at MPH we're revamping the traditional Info Studies course I've taught
> for 18 years. This is the course that used to be required of everyone, and
> went through Word Processing, Spreadsheets, the Internet, and various other
> things as they fell in or out of favor.
>
> Over the years more and more students have been able to test out of the
> course, as a result, it became seen as the "loser course."
>
> The fact that so many people were able to test out made us decide to revamp
> the course to teach more of the new trendy stuff like blogging, video
> making, etc. Our goal is to make this into a class that people WANT to
> take.
>
> But at the moment the revamped course is still carrying the tainted name of
> Info Studies, and a number of us feel that for students to want to take
> this
> class, it has to have a totally different name. I mean, really, would
> anyone
> really buy a new car that was called the Edsel?
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on what a good name for the new course would be?
>
> Thanks!
>
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Norman Constantine
Director of Technology Integration
Wakefield School
The Plains, VA
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