Great Student Tweets from my Spring 2011 “Blake 2.0: William Blake and Media class”

I got this great idea from Kelli Marshall, who uses Twitter in the classroom and posts the best Tweets from her classes on her blog. I’m also going to publish tweets from my current class “LCC 2400: Introduction to Media Studies,” but I wanted to give you a sense of the great work done last Spring by my Blake class. I’m also cross-posting this on Zoamorphosis. My course focused on the people who inspired Blake (positively or negatively) and people who have been inspired by Blake. Along the way, we managed to read a good chunk of Blake’s work, examine his illuminations, and think about his printing process.

I required students to tweet at least three times every class session, and at least once every other day. Here are some of the most intelligent, insightful, interesting, or otherwise moving student tweets. I’m also publishing one Tweet from me, to show you how I was inspired by the Tweets of my students, and another from a Brittain Fellow at Georgia Tech named Pete Rorabaugh, who was kind enough to engage in Twitter with my students during the semester.

Paradise Lost and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Swedonbourg and Newton

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Blake and Buddhism

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Milton: A Poem

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Dead Man

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Last Days

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Final Tweets

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