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Milanote is My Tool For Teaching in a Pandemic

August 6, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

This past spring semester, when all classes went online during the Coronavirus pandemic, I was suddenly in need of a way to keep my students connected and able to work together. I needed something that ideally would work for my discussion-heavy senior seminar that was working through some tough texts, and also be useful for intense group video documentary work being done in a visual anthropology class. Everyone was under a lot of stress so I wanted something to which […]

Categories: Teaching, Technology • Tags: group work, Milanote, online teaching, remote teaching, software

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Knockoff Films and Software in Morocco

January 6, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

While walking in old medina of Essaouria, Morocco, I passed a street stall filled with rows of knockoff films and software for sale. I couldn’t tell where they were made, but they appeared to be packaged exactly the same as knockoff software sold in China.

Categories: Fakes and Forgeries, Made in China • Tags: Essaouria, fakes, Morocco, movies, software

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Hardware and Games

April 26, 2013 by Museum Fatigue

It isn’t much of a stretch to say that the hardware store is a space that is primarily gendered as male—a place where men buy tools and materials for construction. Whether professional or weekend do-it-yourselfers, the stores promise encounters with physical labor—selling things for—designing, building and fixing. They sell hardware. So imagine my surprise when on a visit to my local Menards, I walked past a display selling software—”Value Video Games.” If there is a male that is configured as the inverse […]

Categories: Games, Gender, Labor, Play, Work • Tags: gamer, handyman, hardware, hardware store, Menards, software, video games

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