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May 9, 2012, 3:00 pm

Hack Your Learning Spaces?

[Last weekend I had a rewarding and thoroughly enjoyable time attending THATCamp Piedmont 2012 at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. (Check out previous ProfHacker coverage of THATCamps here.)

Session topics at THATCamp Piedmont included “Deforming the Humanities” (proposed by ProfHacker Erin E. Templeton), “Teaching as Scholarship” (Roger Whitson), and “The UnTeacher: Hacking the Syllabus and the Everyday” (Leeann Hunter).

What I’d like to draw your attention to for this week’s “Open Thread Wednesday,” however, are the ideas contained in the proposal for a session on “Hacking Campus Space,” by ProfHacker Mark Sample. I’ve reproduced his session proposal below (with a few formatting changes) and hope to spark a conversation in the comments. At my campus, I’m on a committee tasked with re-imagining our classrooms, considering everything from furniture to lighting to floor…