PC Fleming – THATCamp Virginia 2012 http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:23:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 News in the Classroom / Dynamic Syllabi http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/04/19/news-in-the-classroom-dynamic-syllabi/ http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/04/19/news-in-the-classroom-dynamic-syllabi/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:49:07 +0000 http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/?p=1090

Given all the tools most of us use to manage our daily reading habits, I’d like to hear how this could be used to the classroom. Not every class wants to engage with the news of the day, but I can imagine many advantages to having students engage with very recent events. Since we obviously can’t build these into a syllabus before hand, I’m wondering if anyone has experience (or wants to brainstorm about) using RSS feeds, or something else, in a class: how do we keep our students and ourselves up to date on recent events? How could we ensure we all have the same focus? Or the same information? Or usefully contrasting information (can some students watch Fox, some the Daily Show)?

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