Chris Shamburg

Projects

These are initiatives and projects that I think are especially interesting.

Podcasting and Creative Audio–This is a fully online high school English class that I am teaching for NJeSchool, New Jersey’s largest online public high school. It’s an English class based on student created podcasts. The biggest influences on the course are trends in authentic learning and language arts, developmental models of writing and research and theory on new literacies, particpatory media, and convergence culture.

National Educational Technology Standards for Students: Units for the English Language Arts–This is my new book. It covers the theoretical, educational, and ethical issues of using technology in the English Language Arts and gives 12 detailed units for technology in the ELA. Here’s the Amazon Link

Research Wiki–Started this wiki for my research class…please feel free to read and contribute.

Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Set Free–I’ve been a national workshop leader and consultant for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Education Department for several years (I went to their summer institute in 1994 and they couldn’t get rid of me).

Folger Shakespeare Library’s Remixing Shakespeare Video Podcast–Besides developing and giving their workshops, I’ve consulted and starred in their pilot podcast project. The video podcast that I worked on is an innovative twist to podcasting. We demonstrate and then give the tools and resources for students to do multitrack audio editing for audio plays of Shakespeare. It merges trends in DIY media and performance based approaches to teaching Shakespeare.

Teaching and Fair Use Wiki–this is a project I started in one of my graduate courses a few years ago and it’s blossomed. Students write scenarios in which teachers can successfully invoke fair use. The project and wiki were formerly focused on ambiguous cases of copyright law in education, but switched focus to encourage teachers to think about and use fair use more.

Podcasting in the Humanities–New book for ISTE. Working on it now. Please send suggestions/ideas. Due to publisher By July 31, 2008. Formalizing and extending the ideas from the Podcasting and Creative Audio HS English course.