UB Course Archive Revived!
At the beginning of the Fall 2007 Semester, I received some plaintive emails from a grad student at UB (SUNY Buffalo) who wanted to look at my notes for the courses I taught (which he was preparing to teach). My course websites were well known within the Department of Media Study, and outside the department, too. I always tried to make the sites as complete and useful as possible, keeping in mind that they were meant to supplement the in-class environment (as opposed to being designed as online courses, these are merely course websites — big difference).
At the time, I had just suffered a hard drive crash and forced move to another machine and I could not find the files anywhere. My primary backup had been destroyed (reminder to everyone to practice good backup habits). I felt terrible that I couldn’t help out a fellow DMS student, and also that I had lost four years worth of planned, accumulated teaching materials.
However, in going through all of my various hard drives from old machines, I came across a complete archive of my course sites. What luck! I was able to do some minor modifications to make the internal navigation work, but otherwise they are the same as the last day that I was at UB. I invite you to browse the courses, relive fond memories of The Shawn Rider Show (Thank you very much, I’m here all week!), or use them to help yourself or your students.
Please note: I am not trying to maintain these courses per se. They are presented here for archival purposes. So there may be broken external links or irrelevant information. As technology and techniques change, I’m sure many of the production techniques presented in these courses will become irrelevant. Nonetheless, I hope you’ll agree that there is still a value in this content, and the price is right!
