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My name is Miriam Posner, and I'm the Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Emory University Libraries. You can read more about me here.Archives
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- Dissertation: defended! 2 days ago
Category Archives: Teaching
As film studies goes digital
I don’t think it’s any secret (among those who care about such things) that the Film Studies program at Yale is at something of a crossroads. Film studies as a discipline has been increasingly turning into media studies, and Yale’s … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Collections, Teaching, research
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Miriam, on tape
As you can surely guess from my long silence, the last few months have been really, really busy for me. I’m plowing through my dissertation, plus teaching, working, and applying for jobs. I wish I were the kind of person … Continue reading
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Very practical advice for a first-time T.A.
For me, teaching has become a real pleasure. I feel inspired by my students and I love the feeling of camaraderie that develops in a well-managed classroom. It wasn’t always that way, though. When I first started teaching, I couldn’t … Continue reading
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Radio in the classroom
I spent a year and a half commuting between New Haven and Providence a couple times a week, and over the course of that time I developed a serious addiction to podcasts and audiobooks. For some reason, listening to recordings … Continue reading
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Documentary filmmakers and DVD encryption
I was interested to learn (via NPR’s On the Media, funnily enough) that there’s a dispute between the International Documentary Association (IDA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The dispute is about DVD encryption. Basically, it’s legal for … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching, Who owns what?
Tagged acronym soup, copyright, dmca, documentary, dvd, encryption, ida, mpaa
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Beyond Bullet Points, or maybe not
I’ve been thinking about PowerPoint lately, and about how I might use it productively. It seems pretty clear that the blizzard-of-bullet-points method is not useful. Who can make sense of such tiny print so quickly? What’s the point of slapping … Continue reading
Posted in History & Technology, Teaching, Tools
Tagged history, pedagogy, powerpoint, presentations, Teaching, visual culture
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Can Blackboard patent online learning?
A lot of schools use a “learning management system” called Blackboard to make course materials and registration functions available online. If you’ve ever used Blackboard, though, you know that it’s like a magic portal back to 1999. Blackboard’s design is … Continue reading
Getting meta in the classroom
I’ve been going through some old teaching evaluations and in between cringing (“I hate Miriam!”) and patting myself on the back (“I love Miriam!”) I was struck by one student’s comment. This was for a film theory section. I think … Continue reading
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Clips, class, and copyrights
A film class needs film. Duh. Close-analysis of film clips is an important part of teaching sections, and nobody wants to mess with scanning DVD chapters to find the right clip. So most TAs I know make clip reels — … Continue reading