We can’t know how Socrates would respond to our current situation, of course. But as someone who tries to teach in an approximation of what I understand as the Socratic style, I find synchronous online/distance learning anything but impersonal. To the contrary, it’s extremely personal, interactive, and involving. […]
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In short, if you work on a computer and use the internet you already have and use some applications that will serve to generate the content you need to augment your F2F teaching and begin to teach online. Your first task, then, is to take inventory of the applications with which you already work and the skillsets you already have: your present toolkit for online and distance learning. […] By the end of the twentieth century, you and your classmates were reading about the disposition of this or that photographer’s life’s work. Some did it well, some did it badly, and some didn’t do it at all — so the stuff got tossed out, or damaged, or dispersed, or simply vanished into thin air. […] As a young 21st-century maker of informationally oriented imagery, you’re familiar with and knowledgeable about both print media and digital media. You can use analog cameras, perhaps even prefer them for some tasks, but increasingly your clients and your vehicles prefer digital systems. Therefore, much of your activity is digital from start to finish. […] |
 SPJ Research Award 2014 |
Private Lives in Public Places (1)
Photographs made of people on the street or in other public places without the consent of the subjects raise questions of ethics as well as aesthetics. What rights do we have as citizens over the control of representation of ourselves, and what rights do photographers have in regard to making images in public situations? […]