Aw, really happy to hear about Critical Commons making the rounds! The site was built by folks here at USC so definitely report back if you find that people using it.
Related story: One of the profs that I've TA'd for has a great collection of clips on VHS that they use during lectures. The department has a nice dubbing station and I've been slowing digitizing clips to make them easier to show from a laptop. We talked about putting the clips on Crit Commons and the prof was lukewarm about the idea. They felt that having the collection is part of their reputation and value as an instructor. I suggested that making positive contributions to a site like Crit Commons might be a way to improve one's professional reputation. The prof's hesitation is a useful reminder that "value" is assigned to academic labor in mysterious ways. Is the professor's "value" in the collection of clips? IMHO, the answer is clearly no -- the clips still need to be placed in a theoretical context, given a critical reading, and built into meaningful learning activities -- but when the job market is tight, it's hard to give anything away. Kevin On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:20:55 -0800 > From: Parker <[email protected]> > > Forwarded it to a prof at Dartmouth who's gunna eat it up I think :) > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/13/2010 08:30 PM, Kevin Driscoll wrote: >>> >>> Future recipe: Helping professors upload their clips to Critical >>> Commons: http://criticalcommons.org/ >>> >> >> That is an awesome site, Kevin, I hadn't seen it before. Thanks for pointing >> it out to us. I'm also going to start a discussion with some people here at >> UMich based on it... :) >> >> >> Greg _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
