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With the blogging, I aimed to establish the connection between Walter Ongs concept of secondary orality in the context of African American oral traditions. In turn, this fusion helped yield a new relationship to Digital Learning.
Was blogging closer to an oral conversation? How would students learn from using Skype? How could we use game and animation tools to teach?
To help answer these questions we began with analyzing old technology which is essentially, writing. Thus, the class read Professor Barry Powells book Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization.
I then prepared the students for a Skype interview with Professor Powell. When the time came, they were each prepared with a question for him.
Here we learned how speech and a responsive audience changes the way we view a text. To be able to speak with the author himself, the text becomes immediately more familiar, and the students were able to accomplish this because of social media.
Furthermore, we focused on the theme of Social Justice and the Internet. For this we invited Cephus Johnson, the Uncle of Oscar Grant, to speak. This presentation inspired important blogs from students. One response (from Brooskie) revealed to the class his own uncles death at the hands of the police.
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