CUNY Academic Commons | Melanie Waller | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/mwaller/activity/ Activity feed for Melanie Waller. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 b9a35a90941279d0e9310381be9ff280 Melanie Waller changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/649925/ Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:28:57 -0500 135b23b60af0393c34e765352ba43e9a Melanie Waller changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/649924/ Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:28:30 -0500 c7247145e33c8917ce085cceb09e7ae8 Melanie Waller wrote a new post on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=457 Sun, 20 Nov 2016 17:13:24 -0500 I throughly enjoyed going through the Wikipedia instructor training. I teach at the high school and graduate levels and after this training I am rethinking the ways that Wikipedia could have a place in my […]

]]> 0d6859c51efbf63a1728f0b25d97693a Melanie Waller commented on the post, Agency and Passivity in the Digital Age: Learning with Dewey, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course https://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/27/agency-and-passivity-in-the-digital-age-leaning-with-dewey/#comment-56 Sun, 30 Oct 2016 18:58:01 -0400 I think your question about the promotion of movement in the digital age is so interesting! From a teachers perspective, I know how important movement is, and I try to find space to allow it in my class as much as […]

]]> 8b78a68d9d5004e18b8699a90ac18e60 Melanie Waller commented on the post, Youth in the Neoliberal Age, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course https://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/22/youth-in-the-neoliberal-age/#comment-52 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:13:05 -0400 I wonder about that as well, but I think as long as students have internalized the neoliberal mindset (which I think many have) it will take more than free college to undo their thinking that college is the road […]

]]> 4ddedddbda0c5614d316d74cffa3231d Melanie Waller commented on the post, Platforms for Pedagogy: Transformational or Instrumental, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course https://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/15/platforms-for-pedagogy-transformational-or-instrumental/#comment-41 Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:13:57 -0400 While I was reading I was also thinking about how DH sustains collaboration, and what that means for the university, and schools.

It seems like many of the effective DH programs and projects that Brier […]

]]> f45b52e586a48da4e5275115225ebf87 Melanie Waller commented on the post, Totally unofficial and informal class meet up?, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course https://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/04/totally-unofficial-and-informal-class-meet-up/#comment-38 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 22:00:01 -0400 I’d love to do this! Especially before the paper is due. Lisa, I like the idea of choosing a meeting after class on a day that folks aren’t planning on attending lab. Any thoughts on October 24?

]]> 0207c8a183252c095bc888fb4787b380 Melanie Waller commented on the post, Netizen Kafka?, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course https://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/09/25/214/#comment-29 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:10:22 -0400 Lisa,

I also read this piece thinking about the subtext of control – who has it, when, and how is the author writing about it? I appreciated how fully Rosenzwieg ‘networked’ the histories of the ‘brilliant […]

]]> 51977adfb1d54a6668e56e4ce9a7c8c0 Melanie Waller commented on the post, Technology, time-discipline and worker control then and now, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/09/19/technology-time-discipline-and-worker-control-then-and-now/#comment-18 Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:40:05 -0400 I found myself thinking about similar 21st century issues after reading Thompson’s work, particularly around the ‘flexibility’ that (some) modern work offers. The exploitation of leisure time that Ximena mentions […]

]]> 03733fae170b05ddff24641399092e6f Melanie Waller became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/410736/ Wed, 02 Sep 2015 21:22:02 -0400