Christian Sandvig's Seminar Blog

Regarding our discussion of undergraduate teaching, Civilization IV and Harold Innis, since there are a surprisingly large number of people in the seminar who are familiar with the game already, if anyone is willing to be a "playtester" for my undergrad assignment on comm tech that would be a big help. I will also ask about this in class. All you have to do is try to think like an undergrad.

This event might be of interest as well:

Teaching and Technology (1 page PDF flyer), Monday 5:30pm

I plan to talk about the Civ IV mod, but I may also talk briefly about blogs and wikis. This event provides GTC and AGTC credit.

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Pencil, M. (1976). Salt Passage Research: The State of the Art. Journal of Communication 26(4).
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=608474701&Fmt=10&clientId=36305&RQT=309&VName=PQD
(This is a ProQuest full-text link and you probably have to be at a UIUC IP address for it to work.)

Favorite fake journal name: Proceedings of the Academy of Wartime Chaplains

Favorite quote:

Hovland, et al. arranged for 112 Army recruits, each sitting alone at one end of a table with salt at the other end, to repeat the utterance, "Please pass the salt," every five minutes for 12 hours. The average distance the salt traveled was .5 inch, which the experimenters explained was due to measurement error.

Of course this kind of humor is even better if you know who Hovland was.

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