Double the Pleasure, Double the Fun CONTINUED!

Now that I've created a new (hopefully working) outline of the basic trajectory of the course, I want to spend some more time researching and developing course content.

First off, I've had no success finding an online version of the first video I show in Communicating Across Cultures: The Couple in the Cage. The Couple in the Cage is a documentary about a performance art piece created by Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Coco Fusco where they staged themselves as two "undiscovered Amerindians" from a made up island with made up customs and languages. To their surprise, many of the people who encountered the performance art piece thought the performance was "real". The artists created the piece to respond to and critique, among other things, the history and methodology of anthropology and ethnography. http://www.thing.net/~cocofusco/subpages/videos/subpages/couple/couple.html

Coco Fusco wrote an essay about the experience entitled, "The Other History of Intercultural Performance" which can be found in her book, English is Broken Here (available at http://www.amazon.com/English-Broken-Here-Cultural-Americas/dp/1565842456). But I did get old school and emailed her about online access to that source.


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But in the meantime, I found a "YouTube Ethnography Project" that lead me to this Digitial Enthography blog hosted by Professor Wesch at Kansas State University. I thought it may be interesting to consider having the students' final ethnographies be either a YouTube video or a Blog. This would 1) fit the whole concept of DL learning; 2) allow students to share their work with friends, colleagues, and possible employers and/or graduate programs; and 3) decrease carbon footprint with less printouts (one of my recent preoccupations)!

MAN! This Blog's got video, podcasts, information, images, etc. etc. This "Connect Online Seminar" is an hour long but worth listening to (especially once they get through the technical problems), as they reconfigure definitions of a "class," student assessment, learning (and teaching) processes, etc. etc. https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a748449443/p44215300/

And here's some new technology that records audio and connects what you are writing to what was recorded. A nifty tool for doing ethnographies if I've ever seen one!http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=206