3 Questions for Chris Friend

  1. What obstacles did you face as you created Hybrid Pedagogy?
  2. In this day and age, would you say it’s no longer possible to be independent of digital technology, are there things we can still do without the use of digital technology?
  3. Do you feel that the widespread shift toward digital technology feels largely exciting because we now have a greater means of communication, or threatening since some people think integrating our lives with digital technology diminishes our character?

3 Questions for Chris Friend

  1. Are there any other open-access online journals you were inspired by (or wanted to do better then) when creating the site?
  2. Have you faced any adverse pressure or challenges from more traditional academics due to the open-access/progressive nature of the site?
  3.  Did you build the site with the knowledge that users would use tools like hypothesis to discuss articles in deeper depth then the comments section allows? Do you like the opportunities hypothesis provides for discussion/annotation?

Questions for Chris Friend

  1. How is writing for the journal similar to or different than typical academic writing?
  2. How do you decide where to place images in your articles? (how you split up text with pictures)
  3. Can readers feel disrupted if they can’t read text from start to finish uninterrupted?

Chris Friend Questions

  1. How did you decide to use photos in your articles that are not exactly what people would expect (you have to put some thought into figuring out why each photo is used on each article instead of the correlation being obvious)?
  2. What led you to creating a type of website that focuses on digital teaching/learning?
  3. How easy/difficult was it for you to get the website to the web presence it has now?

Chris Friend Questions

  1. Do you ever feel more pressured to write now that you have a place to write? If so do you feel it has changed your writing.
  2. Do you have a favorite article? If so why is it you favorite?
  3. In your opinion does publishing on the web change the way a person writes as compared to if you wanted to write these articles for a magazine or other print publication?

Questions for Chris Friend

  1. As you created and worked on your journal, did your overall idea change? More to say was the beginning and end product similar?
  2. Did any of your views or ideas change as you created the journal?
  3. Do you feel that having a peer-review, as I call it a buddy system, could hurt more than it could help? An editor is someone who specializes in the combing through a piece while a peer may not have that expertise, do you agree?