E-Culture and Communications

Instructor: Robert Spaulding spauldingclass@hotmail.com

CELSA, Université Paris IV--Sorbonne

A class investigating the qualities of electronic culture and the new emerging models of electronic communications in English.

Encountering new technologies and communicating in English are the dual challenges presented to students in this course. Students are asked to consider their own habits involved in adopting new technologies as they study the newest digital strategies. They are also given a number of practical tasks aimed at improving their competency in digital or e-marketing strategies, and perfecting their English-language communication skills with the newest digital media such as wikis, videocasting, social networks, podcasts, blogs, instant messenger, on-line audio/video communications, and so on.

Subjects covered include:

• Basic characteristics of e-culture

• Characteristic of successful digital strategies

• Emerging values and principles of professionals in e-culture

• Behavioral issues in adopting new technologies

• Emerging models of social interaction and social networks

Projects include:

• http://ecomms-at-celsa.metawiki.com/bob 2007-02-10T12:48:26+01:00 Bob Spaulding Création de la page Who am I?
  
  Although I live in South France, I teach at CELSA, the School of Communications at the Sorbonne University in Paris,almost a thousand kilometers away.  To do this, I use online technology.
  
  This makes sense for the students since my specialization is emerging models of communications and social interaction created by new internet-based technologies. My courses include techniques of emerging digital strategies, social networks, podcasting, videocasting, blogging, and simple web content management systems.
  
  An added challenge to my classes is that they are conducted in English for a largely francophone student body.  Students are presented with a double challenge of encountering new forms of electronic culture and communications, and developing their skills in English.
  
  The majority of our learning sessions are conducted online using simple online video, voice and text tools.  Students work in CELSA's computer lab directed via a broadband connection from my home in south France.
  
  This course (see description) is a low tech, high content-oriented exercise exploiting the potential of the internet to meet personal and professional needs. 
  
  Here is a short  video presentation of what I am teaching.
  
  
   
  Some of my other teaching blogs for previous courses include:
  
  Shape Your Mind
  http://ecomms-at-celsa.metawiki.com/luce 2007-01-18T15:30:29+01:00 luce nawel Création de la page Hi.

  Welcome in a 22 parisian girl virtual world.

  My name is Luce and I have created this page to present myself and my activity at the Celsa, a High School of Information and Communication, where I study for two years. To make you enter in the context of e-communication and e-culture, I use there 3 new web technologies which know an enormous success among the internet users.

  First, you can watch the video extracted from Youtube where each student of my class and our english teacher present themselves.

   

  Then you can have a look to our  wiki, the New Media Economy, where we think about making good business with Internet.

  You can finish the visit by going to my personal  blog where I speak about the web actuality and the evolution of the new technologies.

  If you want to have more details on my personal tastes and life, you can have  look at tihs picture to see in what state of mind I am and read my profile on my blog.

  

  Enjoy and don't hesitate to write a commentary.

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