Thursday, July 21, 2016

We're Building a New edX MOOC!

Thanks to a grant from the Gary Klinsky Foundation, we are building a new online course for Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition at edx.org. You can read more about the foundation here:  nytimes.com/2005/11/14/giving/mixing-business-with-philanthropy-in-the-classroom.html.

Literature

We've completed the videos, which are now being edited. Here's a sneak peek behind the scenes: facebook.com/MaggieSokolik/videos/1065394890215637/. Videos were shot in Boulder, Colorado at In The Telling: The Transmedia Studio.

In the course, we'll be reading Frankenstein, Dracula, various poems, and the plays Midsummer Night's Dream and Cyrano de Bergerac. Check back to see progress on the course.

If you've never taken a MOOC before, or you want to learn more about it, check out my book, co-written with Dorothy Zemach and published by Wayzgoose Press, How to Be a Successful MOOC Student: amazon.com/How-Be-Successful-MOOC-Student/dp/1938757157/