All too familiar
We’ve had many a Christmas like this. Up all night blogging, playing video games, checking email just one more time . . . Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
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An opportunity for girls
Read more: An opportunity for girlsAccording to the Pew Internet and American Life Study, girls are more likely than boys to create content online. The NYT reports on this phenomenon this morning. I actually discussed this in a talk I gave to the remaining seven sisters schools a year ago. To me, such statistics show opportunities for girls getting involved…
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Electronic Communications
Read more: Electronic CommunicationsAn article in the Chronicle this morning is very apropos to something that I’ve been witnessing a lot of lately. This semester, my colleagues and I have been the recipients of very uncollegial communications. These have come from primarily faculty and students (at least what I’ve seen) and not staff. It’s difficult to respond to…
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Pushing myself, or blogging while making dinner
Read more: Pushing myself, or blogging while making dinnerYesterday afternoon, I participated in a conference call with four intelligent and passionate women. We’re working on a presentation about combating fear of technology in higher education, specifically fear of web 2.0. Barbara Ganley said something that stuck with me, so much that I couldn’t sleep last night. She encouraged us to think about pushing…
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Digital Resource Use
Read more: Digital Resource UseLast night, I made my way through this article on the use of digital resources by humanities and social sciences faculty. There was a considerable amount of food for thought, some good, some not so good. I was reading it with an eye toward finding a clue as to how to improve our own services.…
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Obama is the Geek’s candidate
Read more: Obama is the Geek’s candidateObama unveiled a technology plan yesterday. Does anyone else have a technology plan, other than to protect the RIAA, the MPAA and the phone companies? Hmmm, don’t think so. Here’s one of my favorite ideas in his plan: Obama wants the public to be able to comment on the White House Web site for five…
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Faculty like digital? Really?
Read more: Faculty like digital? Really?I’m a bit skeptical of this announcement. Sure, I’ll grant that many faculty like 24/7 access to digital resources and that they like the searchability of them, as evidenced by my last post. But I’m not so sure I agree with their conclusions that “faculty members want portable reading devices and more electronic content.” Obviously,…
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Another kind of digital divide
Read more: Another kind of digital divideThis article from the Chronicle is one of the many reasons I’m a proponent of Open Access. Patterson explains how not having access to digital databases has made her research more difficult. She also explains how some researchers simply abandon certain areas because access to materials that would support those areas are non-existent at their…
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The Internet is Making us Stupid and it starts in the Classroom
Read more: The Internet is Making us Stupid and it starts in the ClassroomIt’s blame the Internet for everything day! I don’t even know where to start. I guess I’ll start with the Paper of Record’s article on Teacher vs. Technology. I haven’t seen one of these in a while, but the tone in this one is particularly galling. The author calls a professor who smashes a cellphone…
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Links to my brain
Read more: Links to my brainI’ve been linking to articles of interest to me of late, as part of my desire and need to use this blog in a more intellectually engaging way. There are some interesting developments in the technology world that I’d like to link to and write about–but those will have to wait. I’m going to link…
