The word “follow” suddenly looks really strange to me.
A few quick follow-ups from last week’s posts:
The Ryerson student who was threatened with expulsion for administering a study group in Facebook will not be expelled. There will be some fallout from this episode that sticks with him, but he was not found guilty of 147 counts of academic dishonesty. There’s been a lot of talk around my corners of the web about this, with probably more people than not coming down on the side that the kid was cheating. But nothing I’ve seen has really pushed me off my original position.
I agree that the invitation to the group (which, I believe, this particular student did not write) was badly worded. But until someone can show me that the students were actually getting grades for work and learning they did not do – I don’t see the cheating. And I still think that because this study group was virtual, if cheating had happened, the evidence would be there to collect and display.
The first experiment in digital storytelling from Penguin is up at wetellstories.co.uk. The story, The 21 Steps, is a thriller by Charles Cumming, and the platform for the telling is Google Maps. I’m only partway through -but I’m having fun so far. If you didn’t see Adrian Hon’s comment on my previous post about this project (ooh! alliteration) — he’s written a post about this kind of storytelling that gets into some really interesting stuff about how the medium affected the creative process.
(I believe you might find a rabbit hole on the main project page as well)
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