rose marshack : whyamistillawake.com

One of my favorite teachers from my entire academic career, Bruce Reznick, (Combinatorics, math 313) sent me this absolutely wonderful guide for new TAs. I loved reading it because it is obviously his guidelines for teaching; I remember the days in his class and how well he ran it and how great learning in the class made me feel, and now reading his instructions is like getting to see what’s behind the curtain.
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~reznick/ciu.html

I’m busy at work researching what I will teach next semester for my New Media class. I’ve never done this much research into New Media in my entire life! I’m beyond excited about the class. Right now I think it will be about Web 2.0 concepts, and I will call it something like Web 2.0: Question Authority.

I even have the first quote (I always have some sort of quote on opening day) - Here it is from Lipstick Traces:

“I must speak to a boy named Elvis Presley,: said the headmistress of a London comprehensive academy in 1956, “because he has carved his name on every desk in the school.” - p 41, Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus

This is a prime example of the audience (literally, in this case!) becoming a tool for propogating information.