https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/ 2024-11-07T03:43:17-0500 https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/ https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2021-01-02T02:39:31-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/gould?rev=1609573171&do=diff In the mid-forties, on the fourth floor of the American Museum of Natural History, there stood the remains of a tyrannosaurus. Towering above hordes of awestruck kids, this pile of bones inspired two of the best-known careers in twentieth-century science text/html 2023-12-13T22:19:55-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/email_etiquette?rev=1702523995&do=diff Email etiquette This is a brief primer on writing an email to your professor. I love hearing from students, and I love helping my students succeed. I also love email, which is at least in theory an ownerless, anarchistic, open protocol that doesn't rely on any one company or entity to make it work. But often I find that students come to college in need of a few pointers on what an effective email looks like. text/html 2024-04-23T18:40:00-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/hacker_culture?rev=1713912000&do=diff Hacker Culture MDST 2012 it seems to me sometimes I've entered some inverted zone, some mirror world where the dorkiest shit in the world is completely dominant. The world has dorkified itself.---Mercer in Dave Eggers, The Circle (2013) What is this course about? text/html 2021-01-02T02:39:31-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/hacker_culture_s2018?rev=1609573171&do=diff Hacker Culture MDST 2012 it seems to me sometimes I've entered some inverted zone, some mirror world where the dorkiest shit in the world is completely dominant. The world has dorkified itself.---Mercer in Dave Eggers, The Circle (2013) What is this course about? text/html 2021-01-02T02:39:31-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/global_media_literacy?rev=1609573171&do=diff Global Media Literacy Take a collaborative tour of the global media environment. This course unveils the hidden ways in which our media lives intersect with people an economies in distant places. Understand the ways in which politics, cultures, business models, and conflicts shape the media we encounter—and those we don't. text/html 2024-04-19T19:25:41-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/media_activism?rev=1713569141&do=diff Media Activism and Public Engagement MDST 5002 Depending on whom you ask, media-powered activism can sound like either a silver bullet or a lost cause. It's often both at the same time and more in between. Through examining the strategies and tactics of movements, past and present, we'll discover how media can shape social change and how we can become more savvy media practitioners ourselves. text/html 2023-12-03T10:17:18-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/introduction_to_social_media?rev=1701616638&do=diff Introduction to Social Media MDST 1002 This course introduces students to concepts for better understanding online social media, the technology and infrastructures that allow them to flourish, and the cultures that grow up through and around them. It explores how social media enables community, how it assembles and empowers agents of change, and how design informs individual and group behavior. text/html 2022-03-30T15:47:59-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/peer_review?rev=1648669679&do=diff Peer review Providing constructive feedback for peers is a powerful art. Doing it well means giving the gift of a new perspective to someone else, and the karmic rewards are sure to come back to you. Be sure to articulate both the strengths and weaknesses of a draft. It can also be very helpful to mirror back to the author what you understand their primary point and purpose to be. Be sure to refer to the text of the assignment to ensure that your recommendations are aligned with the assigned … text/html 2021-01-02T02:39:31-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/communication_policy?rev=1609573171&do=diff Communication Policy Because of my unpredictable schedule, I do not keep regular office hours. However, I strongly encourage students to find times to meet with me in person by appointment (or by phone if you are studying remotely). To make an appointment, or to ask brief clarifying questions, please email me at [email protected]. text/html 2024-01-29T23:09:38-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/hypothesis?rev=1706587778&do=diff Hypothesis Several of my courses require the use of the Hypothesis annotation platform. Hypothes.is is an open source, non-profit project designed to develop an open protocol for annotation across the web. It is also specifically focused on supporting academic use. However, because it is an attempt to simulate a layer of the web that doesn't otherwise exist, the technical implementation is less than seamless. I am in touch with the Hypothesis team, and we'll be sharing the results of our experi… text/html 2021-01-02T02:39:31-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/wiki/dokuwiki?rev=1609573171&do=diff DokuWiki wiki:dokuwiki DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files text/html 2023-11-11T16:29:32-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/disruptive_entrepreneurship?rev=1699738172&do=diff Disruptive Entrepreneurship MDST 2011 Disruption has become a hallowed achievement in contemporary business culture. What, exactly, do entrepreneurs, investors, and Internet evangelists mean by the word? What have been the great disruptions of our time, and who wound up disrupted?