syllabus

When we launch our new HASTAC website, we will have a space where we can invite anyone and everyone teaching a HASTAC-y course to launch syllabi. I put up my course description for ISIS 120, "This Is Your Brain on the Internet" earlier and have been working with the research assistant, teaching assistant, and teaching apprentice (Patrick, Katy, and Lindsey) this semester to get this closer to finished. Here's the syllabus in progress for anyone who might be interested in seeing work in progress. That, after all, is the HASTAC way. We're also delighted for feedback. Next up: working in the social networking affordances into the structure of the class. Facebook? Or as a Facebook friend suggested this morning: Google Friend Connect? That is the question. Even now, with the clunky affordances of our ancient HASTAC site, I hope others out there will post their syllabi and even their syllabi-in-progress so we can all learn together!

My 7 1/2 foot long Eames Elliptical Table, popularly known as the Surfboard Table, is filling up with (color-coded) ideas, writing, drafts of chapters . . . here's an ongoing syllabus of some of my favorite reading on the fine art of knowing and mini-reviews of books by Hawkins, Nisbett, and Wolf.