In my dream world, besides the world peace and solving of world hunger (and god knows we’re not even close to this), after these much more major issues, I dream of having a version of Adobe Captivate that works with the Mac OS. If that were to happen, I can’t think of a reason I’d […]
Tonight our Department debuted a Citizen Journalism website. Now that the technical structure is in place, I thought I’d comment on the design decisions that went into it.
First, back last summer, when this project was first introduced to me, we looked at a number of existing citizen journalism websites for some insight, such as Chi-Town […]
For the moment, I am in love. Due to some server issues, GD Utility was not working with Wordpress on a site I am working on for our department’s citizen journalism site. Thus, images were not resizing and life felt grim. Yet Another Photo Blog, YAPB has made my life easier within moments. Some additional […]
Steven Bell notes an article in the NY Times, The Professor as an Open Book. This article highlights one of the issues I have struggled with the most as an instructor at a small college that caters to traditional age students. My facebook profile, for example is not invisible but you have to be specifically […]
The tenure system is a hot topic right now (or at least a few days ago, but I’m slow) in the academic blogosphere, specifically due to Andrea Smith’s tenure denial at the University of Michigan. The banter on the one hand reassures me that I am not the only person who finds this system perplexing, […]
While I read this post about the headache caused to an end-user by diigo’s “find your friends” feature with interest, I had linked to the post because I was expecting to read something more along the lines of how the diigolet (really bad name, by the way–reminds me a little to much of toilet) or […]
This ties in nicely with a comment from a student (and I mean this, to quote a colleague, “with love and respect”) who noted with surprise that some materials I required for a class by an esteemed older scholar were really interesting and very relevant. This student had been surprised because based on appearance, this […]
So today was an extra day off, and I spent it catching up with “the web.” Since “the web” is such a close, personal friend. Regardless, making this blog happen (bear with me IE users, while I fix that bugginess, or better yet, just pull the content to an aggregator). I have twittered from time […]
Wow, now that I have my blog home all set up again, I’m so inspired to comment on the massive comments in my aggregator. Through a chain of reading, I see Nate talking about Clarence’s post, which discusses the concept of how students should be assessed in a world where the classroom walls can extend […]
Via Burnt Out Adjunct I read about Amanda Baggs’ description of her interaction with her environment is as viable a mode of expression as spoken language. Wary of waxing utopianist about the benefits of technology, the assistive tools used by Ms. Baggs and others who might not otherwise be able to communicate their thoughts to […]