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=Storming the Academy =

Reforming/transforming/storming traditional higher education with lessons from the open web and open ed. Making higher education a platform for championing the open web. Thinking critically and creatively about the “why” as well as the “how” of //Learning, Freedom, and the Open Web.// Continue the conversation online! Join the HASTAC Scholars Forum on “Openness in Academia” at []

**Thursday, November 4**
Activity Leader: Anne Balsamo, University of Southern California An interactive, collaborative performance and tag cloud activity designed to explore the ethics of the crowd, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and minority expression. Tools: index cards, pens, large sheets of paper, a couple of helpers, a crowd.
 * 11:00-12:50 **
 * Storming the Cloud/Crowd **

Activity Leader: Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University Deconstructing the "assignment" with peer-to-peer learning techniques and tactics. How can we transform traditional syllabus-making through peer-to-peer interactive learning techniques and tools? Tools: index cards, markers, butcher paper, a wiki.
 * 14:00-15:50 **
 * Storming the Syllabus: 21st Century Literacies **


 * 16:00–16:50 **
 * Storming the Syllabus: Introduction to Culture and Technology **

Activity leader: Anne Balsamo, University of Southern California This activity explores and performs the affordances of face-to-face learning in a large “Introduction to Culture and Technology” class. How can a large co-located class of 200+ people contribute to collaborative, participatory learning? This session also introduces an application-in-process called “Learning to Love the Questions,” a semantic web application (a “reverse oracle”) that provides questions, not answers, about the cultural nature of technology.

Calm After the Storm: Yoga for Hacktivists <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity Leader: Nancy Kimberly (HASTAC Project Manager and certified yoga instructor) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Requires comfortable clothes, a flexible spirit, an open mind, a free heart.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">17:00–17:50 **

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Friday, November 5 **
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity Leader: R. Trebor Scholz, The New School The simple and large ambition of this meet-up is to find out how to use digital media for learning.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Building upon an annotated collaborative concept map of tools, services, methodologies, and social practices on the “Mindmeister” platform, this workshop will be a collaborative reflection on the use of digital learning tools [|(http://www.mindmeister.com/66229100/digital-media-pedagogy]).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11:00–11:50 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Storming the Syllabus: Learning to Learn on the Open Web **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity Leader: Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Inspired by the "storm" created by Cathy Davidson's blog post, "How To Crowdsource Grading" that was picked up everywhere from the New York Times to Digg ([]), this collaborative session builds will culminate in a wiki resource of peer-to-peer alternatives to traditional grading.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12:00–12:50 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Storming the Grade Book **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity Leaders: Ken Wissoker (Duke University Press) and Whitney Trettien (Duke University). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this session we will pool intellectual and technological resources to build a toolkit of readymade plugins to help scholars begin creating their own webtexts, and brainstorm tools to move the field forward. We’ll collaboratively write and peer review a creative webtext; share exciting new digital scholarship that utilizes the expressive power of the web; discuss possible models for cc licensed and open access academic publishing; brainstorm the future of peer preview in the wake of the Shakespeare Quarterly/Media Commons experiment; and explore how crowd sourcing and social media could shape academic publishing in ways beyond peer review.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">14:00-15:50 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Storming Publishing and Peer Review **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity Leader: Nancy Kimberly (HASTAC Project Manager and certified yoga instructor) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Requires comfortable clothes, a flexible spirit, an open mind, a free heart.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">17:00–17:50 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Calm After the Storm: Yoga for Hacktivists **

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