In the old days we’d plan big applications, with carefully controlled content, design, and expect the visitor to consume the site in a pre-scripted path. We’d have long development cycles, command and control, and official launch dates — how quaint! Today’s interactive web environment rewards projects that focus on small deliverables that encourage reuse, remixing, and repurposing. Small, light, agile projects, with a low cost for the inevitable failures, but overall generating innovative applications. This project from Professor Marino at USC is a perfect example of where I think we need to be moving towards in higher-education.
Widget-Based Education at WRT: Writer Response Theory
The Widgetbox Topoi Widget is the easiest to share. It contains explanations of the topoi, examples, guiding questions, and videos. It can be shared on Facebook, MySpace, blogs, et cetera. (Some of these versions are still in development). With this piece, I hope to encourage the social networking of writing lessons among teachers and students.
Wired Campus: Professor Uses Web ‘Widgets’ to Share Course Content – Chronicle.com
Mark C. Marino, a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Southern California, has turned his Web page for a writing course he’s teaching into a series of modular “widgets” that others can easily drop into their own Web pages.
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