To enable students to plan, share, and integrate standards in teaching; to enable the Education Department to inventory student progress across the teacher education program and courses within it as they address specific objectives; to enable students (ultimately) to develop electronic portfolios of their experiences.
The CPS system was put into place to allow students to learn more interactively by giving the instructor the ability to ask questions that the whole class answers simultaneously and anonymously. As participation is no longer voluntary, the hope was that students would no longer rely on one or two volunteers in class to get all the answers, but rather, would take stock of their own understanding of the material. Additionally, the CPS system added a fun factor to exam review with a Jeopardy style game.
This project uses visual ethnography and analysis to suggest how the body is implicated in the performance of masculinity in hard styles of rap performance.
