(This isn’t quite my slide presentation, but a list related resources. Here’s the slide presentation itself.)
It’s nice to start with an epigraph. Here’s Jo Guldi on what humanities pedagogy could look like today:
 A characterization of humanities pedagogy based on risk-taking, insight, and pattern-finding is very exciting. It pushes past the monotony of the college essay and re-emphasizes the skills of perception upon which the humanities have traditionally been based. It creates richer minds and broader sets of experience.
(Definitely click the link: Her “5-minute map” idea is awe-inspiring in its simplicity and potential.)
If you are wholly new to blogs/social media, here are three videos IÂ recommend:
- Social Media in Plain English (CommonCraft)
- RSS in Plain English (CommonCraft)
- The Machine Is Us/ing Us (Michael Wesch)
There are lots-n-lots of academic blogs out there–if you search [your field] blogs . . . you’ll find something worth reading. (Here are 3 to start: University Diaries, academhack, and PrintCulture.)
Rather than turn this into a long post, here are my previous posts on Ivanhoe & Twitter, plus some bonus teaching-with-technology goodness: