Comments on: Nonce Journal

By: Grace Tsui Mun Kam

Grace Tsui Mun Kam — Sat, 19 May 2007 23:18:17 +0000

Hi Jim,

Thanks for you and your students’ great work. I am happy that you like my art. Please visit my website at http://gracetsuimk23.blogspot.com to give some comments. Thank you.

By: jimgroom

jimgroom — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:06:36 +0000

Thanks Jerry,
In fact, I am an awful teacher and hate to get out of the way, but the students with Nonce gave me no choice because they knew what they wanted, had a clearly defined goal, and WordPress just keeps making it so much easier. All the perfect ingredients.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:12:49 +0000

It is amazing to see what students can do with these open-source tools. No doubt, guidance from Dr. Emerson was essential, and Jim is an excellent teacher that knows how to “get out of the way” once he has the students ready to run.

Congratulations are due all around on this project!

By: jimgroom

jimgroom — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:48:40 +0000

Luke,

We’ve learned from the best. Thanks for the kind words!

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:21:00 +0000

What a great project. This is liberal education at its best. We hope that students will take what they learn in our classes out into the world with them, but it is sometimes difficult to really know if and how they do that. That explains, in-part, why we feel so good when we get notes from students after they’ve left our classes.

As Jim notes in his eloquent write up, this project, indeed the whole process of “learning by doing,” gives student a more immediate opportunity to apply and express what they know without the boundaries of space. This is also an example of great teaching, of marrying the tools to the ability of the professor to inspire her students with an idea and get them to run with it. Students were tasked with finding out what the contemporary creative scene looked like, and they figured out a way to organize it and bring it to themselves (and us). Congrats!