I teach in a Criminology and Criminal Justice program that offers a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a 4+1 accelerated program allowing students to obtain their BA and MA in five years. To make our programs more accessible to students, we offer all of our graduate courses online every other semester. This means that […]
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Digital Pedagogy and Digital Learning
As an instructor in a technical field – film and video production – the notion of digital pedagogy is always at hand. I not only want my students to learn technical and conceptual skills, but to develop a comfort with learning new tools and with learning how to teach themselves new tools. So, even in […]
Using Twitter Lists and Hashtags for Personal Learning Networks
Professional (or Personal) Learning Networks After reading a couple articles on Personal/Professional Learning Networks (PLNs), I realized that I’ve been doing something similar on Twitter without realizing there was a name for it. What’s a PLN? The way I understand it, a PLN is a loose community of people centered around a particular subject or […]
(Digital) Networking Across Communities: From Organizing to Academe
After graduating from college I spent a year working as a community organizer on issues at the intersection of labor and immigration. I had taken a number of social justice-oriented courses during my undergraduate studies, including a course on activism and organizing, but this did little to prepare me for the job. Making matters more […]
There’s a Professor in my Twitter!
As I think about digital identity, I find myself thinking about authenticity. Is it possible—or positive—to be one’s authentic self in the digital world. On an existential level, what does it even mean to have an authentic self? Considering this in a virtual context caused me to think about the question in real life. […]
Sometimes at Odds: Privilege and Digital Identity as a Community-Engaged Academic
For most of my research projects, I work hard to apply a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach. As described by the Detroit Urban Research Center, this is: a partnership approach to research that equitably involves, for example, community members, organizational representatives, and researchers in all aspects of the research process and in which all partners […]
