Table of Contents - Innovations - Commons - Pedagogies

Analyzing the Romanticism of current, early-twenty-first-century educational theory is one way to determine its distance from the pressures of machine-like efficiency and consequently to assess whether and how current technological innovations may enhance our teaching. Furthermore, discourses about visual literacy can be used to interrogate Wordsworth’s wish to cultivate habits of mind . . . .

Table of Contents

I. Introduction

Laura Mandell (English, Miami University), Educational Theory, Web Interactivity, and Romanticism

II. Introduction to issues surrounding Multimedia Innovations in Pedagogy

Katherine Seiffert (Undergraduate Student, Miami University), Visual Literacy

Olin Bjork (Asst. Director of the Computer Writing and Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin), Commentary on Visual Literacy

W. Michele Simmons (Scientific and Technical Communication, Miami University), Adapting: Online Learning Environments, Visual Pedagogy, and Active Learners

III. Innovations in the Classroom

Mark Phillipson (English, Bowdoin College), The Romantic Audience Project: A Wiki Experiment

Jerome McGann (English, University of Virginia, London University), IVANHOE: Education in a New Key

Jerome McGann and Johanna Drucker (Robertson Chair in and Director of Media Studies, Professor in English, University of Virginia), IVANHOE: Interpretation in a New Key with Special Reference to Byron's "Fare Thee Well"

-- a Flash presentation demonstrating how IVANHOE works (code and design by Laura Mandell)

Ben Jacks (Architecture, Miami University), "A Discussion about 'Walking, Poems, and Buildings': An Exhibition of Collaborative Work" (code and design by Laura Mandell)

IV. Adding Web Interactivity to the Traditional Classroom

Walter Reed (English, Emory University), Teaching a Sheep (essay on teaching) and Romanticism: The Ecological Imagination (a course)

V. Teaching Materials

VI. Call for Future Papers