Integrating this blog into my teaching has its plusses and minuses. While it encourages students to initiate their own search and investigation into new media (a plus), it also tends to be repetitious and ultimately safe (a minus), due to how the grading system encourages students to play it safe.
This helps explain the over-reliance in student postings on smartphone apps (easy to search in iTunes, other postings have apps so that seems to boost chances of acceptance) and on Facebook apps.
So, for next academic year, I won't accept any submissions of free-standing smartphone apps, and any pitches for Facebook-related things had better be good!
It also takes me away from posting things I encounter, as does the crazy Maymester teaching schedule. But, now that that's done, time to re-engage.
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