Africa Through Film
Client: Peyi Soyinka-Airewele

Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics, is an avid user of instructional technology. For example, it’s common to find Peyi in the Center for Educational Technology busily adding rich, educational content to her WebCT online course.

This past year, Peyi’s innovating use of technology reached beyond the walls of Ithaca College. During her Africa Through Film course, she invited her WebCT students from Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria to come join the class. For the first time, Ithaca College students could interact with a dozen or so Nigerian students while discussing films written and produced by African filmmakers.

Ithaca students were also given the opportunity to ask direct questions to the Nigerian content experts. For example, several of Peyi’s students conducted Web interviews with Nigerian scholars over the Internet. The question and answer sessions were facilitated and recorded by ITS and later posted to Peyi’s WebCT course to be viewed by her students.

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