Janus Project
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The Janus Project aims to enhance the English department by bridging traditional literacy and modern digital practices in teaching and learning. It advocates for innovative instruction methods, course materials, and assignments while promoting participatory learning and the effective use of technology. The project envisions a transformed English department that encourages student engagement and critical use of new media.
![“I had [a Canterbury Tales professor] who
used Learn@UW for more than just
“+”
posting the syllabus. We had weekly online
discussions and she posted links to outside
info all the time. She also spends time
talking about Middle English attitudes
towards media (texts!). ”
“[My one professor]
loves technology. He
holds extra online
office hours and
usually shows and
discusses YouTube
clips from film
adaptions of the
works we read.”](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/janusproject-111205210221-phpapp01/85/Janus-Project-11-320.jpg)
Janus Project
- 2. The Janus Project working to create… A MORE PERFECT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
- 3. JANUS THE ROMAN GOD OF GATEWAYS AND DOORS, HE LOOKS TO THE PAST AND THE FUTURE, WHILE WATCHING OVER THE PORTAL TO BOTH TIMES. THE PAST THE FUTURE The Age of Literacy The Age of Digitality WHERE/WHEN DOES ENGLISH STAND?
- 5. Is this the answer?
- 6. Our MISSION to open the gate between the past of literacy and the future of digitality to create a more perfect English department
- 7. How can UW-English get there? We must change the way English literature is taught, including: Instruction Course Material Assignments We must change the way English literature is learned by students. We must innovate: their interaction with the material their forms of discussion their modes of production
- 8. OUR ULTIMATE IMAGINING We want to help you transform the way English is taught by professors, but also the way it is learned by students. We plan on helping you create an English department that encourages students to be more participatory and to use new modes of production to become innovative creators.
- 9. The Department Itself: a good start
- 10. The UW-English Facebook: underutilized
- 11. “I had [a Canterbury Tales professor] who used Learn@UW for more than just “+” posting the syllabus. We had weekly online discussions and she posted links to outside info all the time. She also spends time talking about Middle English attitudes towards media (texts!). ” “[My one professor] loves technology. He holds extra online office hours and usually shows and discusses YouTube clips from film adaptions of the works we read.”
- 12. “-” •The linear, paper-based syllabi •The small, cramped discussion rooms of the Humanities building •The 7-10 page essay, double Out-dated spaced, Times New Roman essay Trends in for every assignment •The communication gap between UW- professor and student English •The ineffective use of technology in the classroom
- 13. Your Typical English Syllabus
- 16. Learn@UW Discussion Forum too much like outdated email systems
- 17. Popular and Successful Forums engaging, instant, aesthetically pleasing, interoperable
- 18. The most pedagogically effective learning experience is one that stimulates the senses. Modern technology has opened the door to mixing media in classrooms to help engage the students in what they are learning. Like a successful website, a successful lecture must include visual and audio, must be aesthetically designed. Mixed Media in the Classroom
- 19. Classroom Environment The Humanities Desk The English 2.0 Classroom more desk space easily moveable workspaces reading circles technology podiums comfort windows and outside world
- 20. All of Shakespeare‟s works are available on Kindle for under $3.00. The heavy Riverside Shakespeare textbook assigned for several Shakespeare classes retails for $14495 on the net.
- 21. The Relevance of a Bachelor‟s Degree in English is…
- 22. Mixed Media Assignments Technological Experience Challenge the Students Tim Williams (UW Class Regularly assigning of „08) works as a projects that push publishing intern for Bloomsbury. When students to incorporate reflecting on his English different forms of degree, he told us that he media will push them “had to learn how to use in new directions while the relevant digital giving them valuable technology—no, all digital technology— experience with outside of the relevant tools of classroom.” technology.
- 24. New Media: opportunity, not obstacle