F06 :: Feminist Film Studies: 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

Comments

Hi Rachel! Found this site because one of your students linked to me and reviewed my vlog. I've enjoyed reading through some of the reviews and thoughts on vlogs posted by your students here! Hopefully they are finding some cool stuff to watch amongst the not-so cool stuff out there. I recently found a vlog you might be interested in. It's called
Portrait of a Kind. I was truly inspired by this girl (even as a non-feminist). I think you would totally like it (and I recommend watching it from the beginning!)

Good luck with your course!

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Very nice point of view! Respect!

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