Historical Archives
Here’s this argument again. Read the comments. They’re fascinating. I don’t have any problem with dictating that students close their laptops on occasion, but banning altogether is ridiculous. We need to keep working to find a way to engage the technology and our students. And you gotta just love the nostalgia of this quote: students…
I’ve just returned from NITLE’s Learning to Write in the Digital Age conference, a conference I helped put together along with a lot of other wonderful people. We did so virtually, via NITLE’s video conferencing software and we also relied on the generosity of attendees to talk about their work. Though some were worried about…
I think there will be more posts to follow, but I wanted to get a few preliminary thoughts out there in the 6 minutes I have before I forget them. Going to a NITLE event for me is increasingly like going home. I get to see so many friends (links coming soon). What’s interesting to…
In addition my own recent posts, there have been several others discussing the relationship between technologists and faculty. I’m also leading a discussion with a mixed group of faculty and staff tomorrow that may touch on (I hope) some of the issues raised by the online discussions I’ve been reading. Just as the issue of…
I’ve been interviewing students for a technology-related internship this week. On the application, I had asked them to describe their worst technology experience in a class. Almost all of them have described a faculty member fumbling around with the projectors and computers and lights in the room. They have explained how this takes up class…
I’m going to guess that most of the people who commented on my last post about office hours are conscientious about their time, trying to be available a reasonable amount of time and trying the balance the time needed for attending to student and the time for prepping, research, committees, etc. These people, I’m going…
Today, in a conversation with a group of people planning a conference on writing in the digital age, we slipped into a conversation about classic rock. It was a tangent from the idea of “old” writing methods. I suggested “classic” and we were off. But then it turned into a more serious consideration of the…
Has it been a week since I’ve blogged? Yikes. Mr. Geeky was away last week, so I was single parenting and then over the weekend, I convinced the kids to help me clean up around the house. So there. I spent the rest of the time watching bad tv and gaming. It’s what I do…
I found this article about how girls are generally outpacing boys in Internet content creation interesting. I used some of the stats from the Pew study in a presentation a few years ago. I do think there’s a disconnect somewhere in that girls’ interest in blogging, creating web pages, podcasting, etc. often doesn’t translate into…
Because the synapses are still slow to fire, I’m going to point you to New Kid’s post about technology, which is really fun. I love just playing around with technology, but often no longer have the time now that it’s my job. Ironic, huh. Actually, I have to make the time. New Kid may have…
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