Digital Media Literacy Modules in Canvas Commons
Atkins Library is introducing a newly-created series of modules covering various aspects of digital media literacy that can be incorporated into Canvas courses. The modules contain readings, videos, and evaluation activities on the topics of evaluating sources, information disorder, and social media. As media literacy is applicable to any subject area, faculty members can consider how these modules might be integrated into their courses. To access the media literacy course content, go to Canvas Commons and search for “Digital Media Literacy Resources for Canvas Course.” Natalie Ornat Bitting, the library’s Humanities librarian, created a resource guide outlining the content of the modules, suggestions for using them in class, and directions for adding them to Canvas courses. We hope that you will find these modules useful, and we encourage you to provide us with feedback on your experience. Please contact Natalie Ornat Bitting or Catherine Tingelstad with any questions or comments.
Antisemitism and the Origins of Critical Theory
Antisemitism is on the rise and critical theory is in the news. Can we learn something by going to the origins of critical theory, developed in Frankfurt, Germany exactly in response to the conditions that birthed Nazi Germany? Join Dr. Martin Shuster, Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, for a talk and cocktail hour focused on the origins of critical theory in the work of the so-called Frankfurt School. The event also serves to mark the remarkable acquisition by Atkins library of a founding text of critical theory, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno’s Philosophical Fragments (1944), a rare book of which only 300 copies exist, but which later was reworked to become their path-breaking and hugely influential text, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947).
- Thursday, October 12, Atkins Library (Register)
5:00 PM – Presentation of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno’s Philosophical Fragments (1944) Special Collections, 10th floor
6:00 PM – Talk and cocktail hour with Dr. Martin Shuster, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies
Halton Reading Room, 1st floor
Autumn’s Echoes of Moonlit Poetry
Meet us at “midnight” (aka 3:00 p.m.) in the clover-covered woods for Autumn’s Echoes of Moonlight Poetry. Find your coven or troupe of woodland creatures as you read and enjoy dreamy, thought-provoking poetry and delicious treats. If you would like to read at this event, please share which poem you’d like to read by Friday, October 13. The forest floor will also be open for when the spirits inspire you to share your favorite poem or one of your own. Feel free to don your favorite costume or cloak as you enjoy a forest of dreamy rhymes and unsettling verse.
- Wednesday, October 18, 3:00 – 5:00 PM, Halton Reading Room, Atkins Library
