At this year’s POD Network Conference (theme: Defining What Matters), I joined with two colleagues from Princeton and Penn to lead a round table discussion called “Shaping what matters: Humanities inflections in Teaching and Learning Centers.” What follows are some thoughts I tossed out to get conversation started. You won’t be surprised … Continue reading
Fun fact: I’ve reached this season in life without ever creating a poster – even though I’ve created institutes for grad students and for faculty that culminate in a great flurry of poster-creation and presentations. Time to walk the walk. My first poster, illustrating the use of Mediathread in my … Continue reading
On the eve of a memorial symposium for Frank Moretti, some thoughts. Much of this was said more fully and immediately by Jonah. My attempt to get my arms around some of Frank’s career is online here, starting 39 minutes in. There was much about Frank that was paradoxical, kept … Continue reading
It had been a while since I’d attended a New Media Consortium conference — five years, to be exact. The approximate lifespan of a rabbit — or of any interest in Second Life as an educational platform. Way back in 2007 it seemed like at least every other session was … Continue reading
My favorite part of Through the Looking-Glass is Alice’s late encounter with a very clumsy and Lewis Carroll-like White Knight in a chapter entitled “‘It’s My Invention’” . The Knight offers to sing Alice a comforting song, and Alice reluctantly accepts (“‘Is it very long?’ Alice asked, for she had … Continue reading
Stray visitors may be forgiven for wondering what *did* happen during 2011: was disaster adverted? Is he alive, and if so did he have a thought? So: yes, yes, and yes; chalk up this still interlude to blogger’s block, pithier observation-release venues, and — most of all — the day … Continue reading
This video has nothing directly to do with education or libraries or technology or anything else I usually prattle on about here. But as we post another lap around the track, I think we can all derive inspiration from it — whatever we’re doing to stave off ruin. Happy New … Continue reading
Looking for a way to give your pet theory some legs on the internet? The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in the UK has an idea. Actually the RSA has had many, many ideas over its 250 years of promoting “a progressive, inclusive and … Continue reading
At work today: one of our periodic, inevitable, spirited conversations about the oft-ridiculed yet oft-cited notion of a “digital native.” We revisited Marc Prensky’s 2001 framing of such (first hit on Google, for all you “digital natives” searching for yourselves) called “Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants” — a piece festooned … Continue reading
Data just wants to get closer and closer and closer, it wants to be petted, it wants you to play with it. Forget the mouse, the screen wants you to touch it — wants you to wear it. Actually, forget the screen, data wants right into your eye. Aided Eye, … Continue reading