Cedeno has credentials to attend U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech at the Invesco Field at Mile High stadium tonight. A native of the Dominican Republic who is a legal U.S. resident, Cedeno says he won’t be eligible to vote in this year’s presidential election. While he expects to become a U.S. citizen in the next few years, he says he’ll likely pursue law school and a graduate degree in public policy or public administration.
While students, such as Cedeno, have sought to enhance their classroom learning with the experience of attending a national party convention, numerous college professors and scholars are accompanying students and have made Denver into a virtual classroom.
One such professor, University of Iowa political scientist Dr. David Redlawsk has been teaching remotely from the convention. Chosen as a delegate, Redlawsk had been scheduled to teach two courses on political campaigns during the convention. His solution was to teach from the convention using Webcams and video and text blogs.
Interviewing politicians, campaign staff, journalists, celebrities and delegates about their experiences at the convention, Redlawsk has been posting the interviews online along with his own commentary. A total of 60 students are in the courses, according to the University of Iowa. Redlawsk has joined his students live via webcam to lead discussions.
“The topic of the courses is campaigning, and I'm going to be in the middle of one of the biggest campaign events. It just seemed natural to connect these things,” Redlawsk says.
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