Teaching With Technology: Identity Trajectories

I spoke twice to colleagues assembled at Macalester College for the fifth annual Al-Musharaka seminar, "Identity Trajectories: Teaching the Culture and Society of North Africa and the Middle East at Home and Abroad." I plan to quickly review the years since the introduction of NITLE's Arab World Project at Middlebury College in July, 2002, using my own experience in teaching with technology this past decade, and then to discuss my current interest in Moroccan youth blogging, podcasting, and hip-hop culture. I'll record these presentation.

Herewith, some links to talking points and resources mentioned in our discussions:

• Wednesday podcast
• Thursday podcast
• "Millenial Teaching" (Academe, 2003)
• Haverford Psychology of Adolescence course page: "Rita and the Rifle" (April 14, 2005: d2 lecture/demo),  classnotes blog re Moodle discussion of this poem and Ani DiFranco's "Self-Evident"
• Blog search tools: Google blog search, Feedster, Bloogz, BlogSearchEngine
• NITLE Mahmoud Darwish link: Mahmoud Darwish at Swarthmore College (April, 2002)
• NITLE: Marcel Khalife performs Darwish's "Passport" and "Mother"
• "Le Grand Voyage" (October-November, 2005)
• Youthful Moroccan Identities on the Internet (EARA, 2006)
• آصوات الشباب (a trial site for Moroccan youth podcasting)
• "Mess3oud" (a tragicomic Moroccan fantasy (cf. Oedipus Rex)
• "Submission 1" (Theo van Gogh film excerpt and linked discussion at iFilm)
• Podcating utilities (FYI: not endorsed by NITLE)
• babelMed (links to cultural and social resources by country)
• Blogs of the moment (Middle East politics, commentary): Informed Comment, Just World News,  Baghdad Burning
• War News Radio: Swarthmore College podcast site
• "The French Democracy": a short animation about the French "events" in Fall, 2005, using an online role-playing game as a production tool.