New Ways of Teaching: Scott Huette

Blogs add third dimension to distance ed: The ability to join the classroom discussion any time, anywhere

What is art? What is it for? Is food art?

These are some of the questions instructor Scott Huette raises in his Art and Human Values course, and they beg for lively discussion and a stimulating exchange of ideas. But Huette's courses are largely distance education courses, where face-to-face interaction isn't possible and discussions are traditionally confined to a single student-teacher dialog within Blackboard. How to involve everyone?

Huette's answer: class blogs.

Huette has long been interested in investigating new technologies. A photographer and digital artist in his own right, Huette has extensive experience in video game production and "mashed" (mixed digital) media, and he currently chairs the Artist Services Committee of Eugene's avant-garde Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA). In 2006 he organized a series of information technology workshops for the UO's Teacher Effectiveness Program, and presented the popular "Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts, Oh My!" series that inspired some notable teaching experiments in the School of Journalism and Digital Arts...

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