Case Study Assignment: Comment Press Spring 2013
As students taking IML 555: Digital Pedagogies with Virginia Kuhn at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in the USC School of Cinematic Arts, we saw the DOCC as as opportunity to think through our own questions of pedagogy and digital media. Our goal was to design a website that could foster a sense of collaboration through technology. We did so using CommentPress, an open source plugin for the blogging platform WordPress. The platform allows users to comment paragraph-by-paragraph in the margins of assigned readings. By transforming the articles into CommetPress pages, we sought to turn the documents into a conversation with which students could engage.
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At the completion of the segment, lasting approximately one week from the time the site went live to the in-person class meeting, 132 comments were posted on the CommentPress site. Of these comments, 110 were independent comments and 22 were left as replies to previous posters.
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