Too many resources out there! In the first full day of working on updating the resources Emily and I use in our American Studies class it has become abundantly clear that the question isn't whether we can find anything, or even whether we can find anything good, but how much we might have to 'give up' to keep the workload sane for students and ourselves. While we are not there yet with regards to technology, it is pretty evident that either the notion of what we consider a textbook needs to change or textbooks will become obsolete. With video clips, podcast lectures, primary documents, and a vast array of images of all kinds one could almost make their own interactive textbook in BlackBoard. If we ever get sabbaticals back it might be worth persuing....
Monday, June 14, 2010
Resources
Too many resources out there! In the first full day of working on updating the resources Emily and I use in our American Studies class it has become abundantly clear that the question isn't whether we can find anything, or even whether we can find anything good, but how much we might have to 'give up' to keep the workload sane for students and ourselves. While we are not there yet with regards to technology, it is pretty evident that either the notion of what we consider a textbook needs to change or textbooks will become obsolete. With video clips, podcast lectures, primary documents, and a vast array of images of all kinds one could almost make their own interactive textbook in BlackBoard. If we ever get sabbaticals back it might be worth persuing....
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What you are describing is exactly what we mean by "deeply digital text." Keep up the good work.
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