Year: 2016

  • Scantron is Death

    Scantron is Death

    Are we bludgeoning new students with mechanized exams instead of engaging and inspiring them with active learning projects & the possibilities of human diversity?

  • Art Games & Snapchat Challenge

    Art Games & Snapchat Challenge

    Photos from “Art Games” & “Snapchat Challenge” final exams.

  • Wk 16 – Finger Painting ‘n Feedback

    Wk 16 – Finger Painting ‘n Feedback

    A look at your Week 15 Finger Painting Activities, your feedback on the class, and the final points and leaderboard for Fall semester 2016 in Art110 at the CSULB School of Art.

  • Final for S3 / 2:30 – Snapchat Challenge!

    Final for S3 / 2:30 – Snapchat Challenge!

    Exciting news, Savannah Avalos of Savvy Parties will be leading our final with a special Snapchat Challenge!

  • Wk 15 – Shalane’s getting married! (+Finger Painting & Last Week ‘o Class)

    Wk 15 – Shalane’s getting married! (+Finger Painting & Last Week ‘o Class)

    We’re trying Finger Painting and visiting the SOA Holiday Art Sale this week! Plus samples from your Instagram activities last week and your thoughts about EDU-2036. Plus you get to meet UnCollege students Mihir Kathpalia & Allison Bouganim!

  • Writing Essays for Grumpy old Men

    Writing Essays for Grumpy old Men

    When we ask students to write (the GPE / WPE or anything else) are we asking them to write what we want to read? Or are we truly inviting them to think new thoughts in their own time, for their generation, and in their century?

  • Wk14: Instagram & the Future of College

    Wk14: Instagram & the Future of College

    We’re meeting in the classroom, FA4-311, for the last time this week. We’ll talk about The Final, (have a potluck?) Websites, ePortfolios, and of course, Classmate Conversations!

  • WP Campus Online talk proposal

    WP Campus Online talk proposal

    WP Campus, a WordPress group focused on Education, is holding a virtual conference in January. This is a copy of the proposal I submitted for “Using WordPress for Student ePortfolios”

  • TEDxCSULB Proposal

    TEDxCSULB Proposal

    A copy of my proposal for TEDxCSULB 2017: “Burn the University Catalog: real lessons from fake universities”

  • Wk 13 – Vlog & Conquer! (& then Fall Break)

    Wk 13 – Vlog & Conquer! (& then Fall Break)

    We’re in the classroom, FA4-311 with visiting artist Carla Dauden helping to inspire our vlogs & eportfolios this week. Next week: vegan turkey!

  • Visiting Artist: Carla Dauden

    Visiting Artist: Carla Dauden

    Filmmaker and activist Carla Dauden visits Art110 this week for a conversation about media, careers, and having a voice in your culture. Bring your questions!

  • Donald Trump: The Education President

    Donald Trump: The Education President

    Wednesday was a bad day. A man who preached hate and division was elected president of the United States. But it was also a day that students raised their voices with a power you don’t often hear. Was it a good day?

  • Breaking News: Facebook isn’t cool anymore!

    Breaking News: Facebook isn’t cool anymore!

    Thinking about Social Media. It’s useful. You can build audiences, brands & careers. But is it so formulaic that we’ve crushed the human spirit to get there?

  • Wk 12 – Scantrons & Twines, oh my!

    Wk 12 – Scantrons & Twines, oh my!

    Lots of cool Twine & Scantron EC projects! Classmate conversation triptychs. What is art? Abstraction & Representation.

  • Public Knowledge 5: Making a Difference in your own backyard & Social Media

    Public Knowledge 5: Making a Difference in your own backyard & Social Media

    Final workshop session on the academic & the community and social media.

  • Lydia’s Scantron Art EC Contest

    Lydia’s Scantron Art EC Contest

    Lydia challenges Y-O-U to take those Scantrons you’re sick of and turn them into cool art pieces!

  • Wk 11 – Home Stretch!

    Wk 11 – Home Stretch!

    Coooool Fiber Art Social Network last week! This week we hang out at the SOA Galleries for conversations!

  • A Donald Trump moment at the Future of the University Panel Discussion

    A Donald Trump moment at the Future of the University Panel Discussion

    A panel discussion on the future of the university turned into a sort of Donald Trump rally as students left behind by “academic globalization” protested The Hall of Science Building as if it were a Goldman Sachs bank bailout.