10 October 06 - 14:01Media Economics BRC 301: Spring 2006: SUNY Oswego

01.05.2006
A course on the economics of the media industries.

I approached this course experimentally. I had never taught a course like this before. I was very interested in understanding the economies of the media not only through the traditional venues (the media industries for example) but also new emerging user created medias and their economies. I approached 'economies' not as an exchange of monies but as informational exchanges (barter economies are as legitimate as market economies). With this as a basis students learned about networked media economies such as youtube, craigslist and myspace (economies of agglomeration) as well as larger corporate media economies such as 'Time Warner' (economies of scale).

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10 October 06 - 13:49Broadcast Newswriting BRC 229: Spring 2006: SUNY Oswego

01.05.2006
A course on writing for broadcast news medias.

This course taught students in the communications department at SUNY Oswego how to effectively write for the news media. Specifically this course is designed for building skills for writing in radio and television broadcasts. It critically examined how to write a story that was interesting and appealing to watchers and listeners as well as informative. This class focuses on the 'style' of writing for these broadcasts.

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10 October 06 - 11:15Visual Thinking: Spring 2005: Kean University

01.22.2005
A course on "Thinking with Images"

The idea with this course was to use the digital camera as a way to quickly construct images. Images were either fabricated by the students or were of real world 'events'. Students collected images of subjects that they were interested in. As the course progressed students were asked to 'evolve' there imagery by photographing 'variations' of the images they found most interesting and appealing. The class ended with an original 'final project' of the students own creation. The following is some of the course content.

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04 October 06 - 08:26Introduction to Art: Fall 2004: Kean University

09.03.2004
Art 101: Re-Conceptualizing a beginners Art survey course.

The following syllabus/content was for the first class I taught at Kean University in New Jersey. For an introductory course in art I was really interested in not only exposing the students to the traditional arts (painting, drawing, sculpture), but also the contemporary arts such as conceptual art, land art, net.art, multimedia arts etc. We looked at painters such as Pablo Picasso but also artists such as Christo & Jean-Claude and Chris Burden. Lectures were always accompanied by video and imagery. Students also experimented with various traditional and experimental mediums. The goal was to give the students exposure to all the various types of art without focusing on any 'one' art form in particular.

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