A course space for learning

We are active in exploring social software and digital technologies of all kinds in learning and teaching. Metamedia runs and supports various classes at Stanford. We like to think we push the limit with IT enabled collaborative and project-based learning. All classes offer a major research component.

For experimental performance-based pedagogy - Philosophical stages

Winter Quarter 2008

• Visualizing Archaeological Knowledge in the Information Age - a class with Timothy Webmoor on new media for visualizing archaeological information
• Introduction to Roman Archaeology - Meg Butler and ancient Rome

Spring Quarter 2007

• Digital Humanities - a class with Michael Shanks on the 'digital turn' in the humanities
• Archaeology and Photography - a class with Michael Shanks emphasizing the discipline's specialty as practice not technique

Winter Quarter 2007

• Ten things - a class with Michael Shanks about design
• Digital Journalism with Howard Rheingold
• Forecasting the Future of Engineering with Paul Saffo
• The Archaeology of Contemporary Issues with Bill Rathje and Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal

Fall Quarter 2006

• Eight great archaeological sites with Michael Shanks.
• Human and Machine with Henry Lowood and Michael Shanks
• Digital Journalism with Howard Rheingold

Spring Quarter 2006

• Digital Humanities with Michael Shanks.
• A comparative history of antiquarian traditions between EAST And WEST with Alain Schnapp

Winter Quarter 2006

• Eight great archaeological sites with Michael Shanks. Latest iteration of a class that has run for several years in the Freshman and Sophomore Seminar Program, now accredited as part of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric
• Digital Journalism with Howard Rheingold
• The Archaeology of Contemporary Issues with Bill Rathje and Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal
• In Search of the Goddess with Tristan Carter

Fall Quarter 2005

• Stanford Archaeological Theory - a reading group with Michael Shanks
• Human and Machine with Henry Lowood, Michael Shanks and Jeffrey Schnapp
• Archaeologies of the Greek Past with Christopher Witmore

Past

• Performance, place and the past with Michael Shanks
• Ancient urbanism with Michael Shanks
• Science, technology, and culture - the design of ten artifacts with Michael Shanks
• Creative Computing in the Humanities with Joe Adler and Michael Shanks
• Artifacts - an introduction to material culture studies with Barry Katz and Michael Shanks