Re: [xmca] What about a new kind of XMCA forum?

to clarify: we meet via video conferencing for the first hour or so;
Kris D. Gutierrez
Professor
Social Research Methodology
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
Moore Hall 1026
UCLA
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310-825-7467

Address for the Academic Year 2006-07

Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences
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On Apr 17, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Kris Gutierrez wrote:

> for what it's worth, Mike and I have used this medium to co-teach a
> course every Spring quarter (except this year while I'm away on
> sabbatical) with the following format: We meet virtually for the
> first hour or hour and a half, having generated comments and
> questions throughout the week on the readings/topics; so we're
> primed. We use the remainder of the class (2 to 2 1/2 hours) to our
> own ends. My students and I have found it to be very productive
> and engaging. Never a shortage of students who have wanted to
> participate. Kris
>
> Kris D. Gutierrez
> Professor
> Social Research Methodology
> Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
> Moore Hall 1026
> UCLA
> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
> 310-825-7467
>
> Address for the Academic Year 2006-07
>
> Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences
> 75 Alta Road
> Stanford, CA. 94305-8090
>
>
> On Apr 17, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Andy Blunden wrote:
>
>> This is a great idea Mike. On-line course delivery must be one of
>> the most intensively theorised areas in all of science, and when
>> it's XMCA doing it, my amateurish mind pales into nothingness ....
>> but from my old days as support stuff for this kind of thing, can
>> I make a couple of observations.
>>
>> * please keep talking head video to an absolute minimum, maybe for
>> the hello and goodbye.
>> * get professional help not only from IT people, but from audio/
>> video people as well. IT people usually know little about sound
>> and light, except for how to store and stream it maybe.
>> * audio in the background supporting text and graphics usually
>> looks more professional and communicates better than bad video of
>> some old guy in a dark corner on the other side of the room
>> talking at some point not the camera. :-)
>> * "interactivity" is truly problematic for this format, unless you
>> are going to enroll people as paying students. The benefit is that
>> students can play things over and over, focusing on the difficult
>> bits, and at their own pace.
>> * "interactivity" for on line asynchronous users implies dedicated
>> production, rather than as a spin off from a local lecture, IMHO
>> * "interactivity" could mean asking people to move through a
>> powerpoint display or website as you talk, filling the powerpoint
>> with suitable graphics and text, of course not distractions from
>> what is being said, like the same content reduced to dot points :(.
>>
>> Please, humble apologies for even daring to raise my voice on
>> these vast topics.
>> I am sure all these things are old hat and will be taken in a
>> suitably condescending spirit from those steeped in learning
>> theory. :-)
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> At 08:02 PM 17/04/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>>> Its up for discussion (and my computer is acting like it has
>>> caught a virus,
>>> so this will be short).
>>> Its an open question. We could do 10 lectures as a "course" for
>>> those on a
>>> quarter system or 18 for those
>>> on a semster system, or not link it to our regular teaching.
>>>
>>> I am in a position to help in a couple of ways.
>>> 1) I am in a Comm department and a lot of what I do seems loony
>>> but this
>>> would seem like "Communication"
>>> and we have some GREAT IT staff who have supported my amateur
>>> efforts.
>>>
>>> 2) I am senior and old enough so that people here let me teach as
>>> seriously
>>> as I possibly can, so I can be
>>> flexible.
>>>
>>> 3. I am teaching a grad course in the fall which would fit this
>>> bill, so I
>>> can nurture several efforts with one body/soul.
>>>
>>> My guess is that some will want to get credit. Some will not give
>>> a damn. I
>>> am TOTALLY open to ideas. But my
>>> own bias is toward: multivoicedness, interactivity,
>>> INTERNATIONALISM, shared
>>> texts to ground discussion, lots of
>>> opportunity to comment, great elasticity of timing and media.
>>>
>>> UCSD has some good resources technically./ they have been great
>>> to me. But I
>>> am totally lowbrow high tech, so I am sure
>>> others can do better or chip in.
>>>
>>> mike
>>>
>>> On 4/17/07, David H Kirshner <dkirsh@lsu.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Mike,
>>>> Perhaps I missed an earlier email, but can you explain more
>>>> about the
>>>> idea. Are you thinking of occasional video lectures for
>>>> discussion, in
>>>> the same way as we have occasional readings for discussion, or
>>>> are you
>>>> thinking of a series of lectures on a given topic.
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-
>>>> bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
>>>> On Behalf Of ignacio dalton
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 9:08 PM
>>>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>>>> Subject: Re: [xmca] What about a new kind of XMCA forum?
>>>>
>>>> hi mike, loisssss! and all
>>>> me too!
>>>> count on me.
>>>> lois, i send you emails this week
>>>> ignacio
>>>>
>>>> Ana Marjanovic-Shane <ana@zmajcenter.org> wrote:
>>>> Absolutely YES!!
>>>> Ana
>>>>
>>>> Natalia Gajdamaschko wrote:
>>>> > I think it is a great idea!
>>>> >
>>>> > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:11:48 -0400 xmca@weber.ucsd.edu wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> YES!
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Lois
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>> From: Mike Cole
>>>> >>> Reply-To: , "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity"
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:33:12 -0700
>>>> >>> To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity"
>>>> >>> Subject: [xmca] What about a new kind of XMCA forum?
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Deborah Downing has been present at some of the video
>>>> seminars I
>>>> >>>
>>>> >> participate
>>>> >>
>>>> >>> in via the internet and has
>>>> >>> started talking about the idea of a distributed set of
>>>> lectures that
>>>> >>>
>>>> > were
>>>> >
>>>> >>> streamed/archives on various topics.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Lois's comments about reading Wittgenstein arrived at some
>>>> part of
>>>> my
>>>> >>> distributed cognitive system in
>>>> >>> conjunction with this idea.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> With recent changes in technology, we should be able to
>>>> create a
>>>> >>>
>>>> > virtual,
>>>> >
>>>> >>> distributed course on key topics of
>>>> >>> interest to the XMCA community which could be participated
>>>> in in
>>>> either
>>>> >>> realtime or non-syunchronously in
>>>> >>> combination with XMCA discussions in print.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Anyone interested?
>>>> >>> mike
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>> Andy Blunden. The Subject - http://home.mira.net/~andy/works/the-
>> subject.htm
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