Category Archives: Session Proposals

Hi there, because my current research and teaching centers around the use of social media as pedagogical tools, on the one hands, and as tools for facilitating social justice, on the other hand, I wanted to propose a session that explores the role of social media in the classroom as a tool for facilitating social justice.

Digital Skills & Pre-Release Prison Education

We live in a society where many simple and complex tasks are initiated in or take place in a networked environment. It has been established that people need to posses information literacy and digital literacy skills if they want be … Continue reading

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A Few Session Possibilities

I’m a bit late proposing topics, but here are a few nebulous thoughts: * Open source possibilities in academia – alternative publishing and public scholarship meet the necessities of the tenure track * Digital humanities and accessibility: there’s already a … Continue reading

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Occupy Internet: Social Media, Digital Research, and Social Justice

I am interested in engaging a roundtable with folks who are interested not only in using technology to enhance their pedagogical and personal computing skills, but also those who might see it as a viable topic to conduct research/ write … Continue reading

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Two session ideas

And very open-ended ones, at that. I’d be really interested in a session, or track, on social justice/tech pedagogy. This might encompass teaching students about using technology; teaching them about studying and analyzing different technologies in terms of the issues … Continue reading

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Digital Knowledge Forms, Graduate Education, and Questions of Access

Partly because I am a first-generation college student hailing from the Deep Southern United States who didn’t have a computer until I purchased one for college in 2003, I’ve become increasingly interested in the entire set of assumptions, biases, and … Continue reading

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Social Justice Classes, Technology & Scholarship

As a professor in a Digital Filmamking department I have frequently taught social justice skills to my production classes – asking them to incorporate topics about class, gendered and racial equity into their work.  However, when I teach classes with … Continue reading

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Trans/forming Technology or: The Gender Session

I’m interested in the potential implications of new technologies for individual and cultural understandings of gender, and for social justice initiatives specifically focused on gender justice. A few topics that seem worth thinking about: The uses of technology in gender-related … Continue reading

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Decentralized Currency Systems

Ever since payment card usage began becoming more common, there has been correspondingly less need for physical representation of currency as cash or coins. The transformation of money into a digital concept has been extended to mobile implementations such as … Continue reading

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Calling All Session Proposals

Dear THATCamp PNW participants: When you have a moment (ideally before November 10th), please post your own session proposal on this site, categorizing it under “Sessions Proposals.” Also, feel free to comment on proposals by other participants. Proposals can be … Continue reading

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