Welcome to the Course
Welcome to the public blog for the Fall 2006 course "GWSS 3307 - Feminist Film Studies: On Media, Representation, and Women Who Make Movies". This course is newly designed this term to include lots active learning (see this, this and this for examples). I have been thinking a lot about feminist pedagogy, media literacy and teaching/research/learning with technology.
We will post frequently to this blog. Students are assigned 6 mandatory posts throughout the course, but are encouraged to post more for extra credit and for fun! We also have a myu portal course website (but that's a private space for enrolled students only).
As Instructor (and Instructional Designer) I encourage students to write beyond our isolated classroom community. My hopes are to teach students to think, speak, and write critically but responsibly, and to connect our thoughts, ideas, and work to the world, thus - this blog.
I'm asking the students to read rebecca's pocket guide to weblog ethics but if you have a good site or guide for new bloggers and students, please link us!
Hopefully this blog will be a productive and creative collaborative space.
Looking forward to a great term!
-Rachel
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I thought it might be helpful to include some basic html tags here, for students interested in doing "fancier" posts:
This is a guide from our course moodle site:
Other html tag sites:
Bare Bones Guide to HTML
alphabetical list of tags