Recently I had a colleague contact me asking for a bibliography of recent influential texts that he could include in a three credit introductory course in technology for language students. Mike said that he was looking primarily for items that approached technology from a theoretical or philosophical perspective. I went though my RefWorks bibliography of…
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I’m Going to the Faculty Academy
Welcome – Faculty Academy 2008 One of the spring events that I’ve come to look forward the most is the Faculty Academy for Teaching and Learning at the University of Mary Washington. This year I’ll be attending as an “esteemed guest presenter” and sucking in all the energy and creativity that event fosters. I’m honored…
Required Reading for Turbulent Times
Dealing with the Future Now Every few years those of us in public colleges are plunged into the same turmoil of budget uncertainty that invariably results in canceling travel and professional development, hiring freezes, and creative attempts to defer payments for every non-essential expense possible. The atmosphere of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) hangs over…
Architectures for Collaboration
Architectures for Collaboration: Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries The new issue of the Educause Review contains an article that is right on point for our joint planning meeting between staff from IT and the Swem Library next week. Peter Brantley, executive director of the Digital Library Federation, acknowledges that libraries–and librarians–have been in the…
Overcoming Bias: My Favorite Liar
Overcoming Bias: My Favorite Liar One of the blog that I’ve really come to enjoy is Overcoming Bias housed at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. It’s a great source of information on cognitive bias and on the predictable ways our brains fool us into making bad decisions. This post focuses on a little…
Gaining Conceptual Clarity
C.R.A.P.:The Four Principles of Sound Design A post in DailyBlogTips retells the story from Robin Williams (the author The Mac is Not a Typewriter –not the manic comedian) about the importance of finding language to describe things that are important to us. It’s a great parable about the importance of learning to see the important…
YouTube – Campus Voices: Forging an honest dialogue
YouTube – Campus Voices: Forging an honest dialogue Susan Evans pointed me in the direction of this student produced-video on the situation at William and Mary campus. I think it’s a very effective piece of student work that captures a much better sense of what’s actually happening on campus than what I’ve seen in the…
Harvard Research to Be Free Online
Harvard Research to Be Free Online – New York Times The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard has voted to create a free digital repository that would include articles and monographs that previously would have been restricted to scholarly journals that charge extraordinarily high prices to very small readerships. The move was described as…
The Rules of Engagement: Socializing College Students for the New Century
Tomorrow’s Professor Blog: 844. The Rules of Engagement: Socializing College Students for the New Century One of the few listservs that I still subscribe to is the Tomorrows-Professor Mailing List, The TP Mailing List seeks to “foster a diverse, world-wide teaching and learning ecology” and goes out to over 25,000 subscribers at over 600 institutions…
Now I Know: Why Humanists Read Their Papers
Why Humanists Read Their Papers I’d always wondered about this. Some years ago, I was invited by one of my colleagues to attend an American Studies conference on campus. When I went to his paper session, I was aghast–here was this talented, enthusiastic, master-of-multiple-technologies standing at the lectern, head bowed, reading a paper out loud….