Historical Archives
Today has been designated “Stop Cyberbullying Day.” The events that were revealed on Monday regarding Kathy Sierra prompted such a day, but of course, bullying, online or offline, is nothing new. Nancy White has an excellent post about online bullying and what it means for those of us who participate extensively in online communities. I,…
I am deeply disturbed by this whole incident, which I just read about here. Kathy’s commentary about the whole incident, which she posted on her blog today is even more disturbing. It’s sad, too, that the threats kept her from participating in a conference that has been heavily criticized for having some serious gender imbalance.…
In my little corner of the blogosphere, we haven’t had this conversation in a while. You know, the “where are the women” conversation. Partly that’s because many of the blogs I read are by women, and the men I read seem to be pretty much aware that there are women bloggers out there and that…
For a post on women and technology. It’s on the brain. Feel free to add your questions and comments, etc. and I’ll address them. Tags: women, technology Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
Steve over at Pedablogy continues the conversation about how much faculty should or shouldn’t learn about the technology they use in their teaching. He mostly agrees with me (I’ll get to the disagreements in a moment). One point he makes bears unpacking a bit: On the other hand, I’m not an IT professional and it…
A while back, I wrote something about whether it really mattered if I recycled or took public transportation or voted a certain way. My question was, does it really make a difference? And if it seems like it doesn’t make a difference, and if, from a practical standpoint, it’s onerous for me to recycle/ride the…
In technology support, we often talk about fishing for people, doing it for them, vs. teaching people to fish, teaching them how to fish. On the staff side of things, it almost always makes more sense for us to teach. Most of the time, the things that staff are doing with technology are things they…
I’m so glad I didn’t have time to read this this morning. How many times are we going to have this discussion? Just keep marking the papers down. Or better yet, have your students edit the wiki. Yeah, I know, it’s hard to teach people how to do real research. /snark Please consider donating to…
In talking to people over the last few weeks–and really years, I guess–I’ve noticed that people don’t always understand not only what I do, but the broad knowledge I have, and feel I need, in order to do my job effectively. So I just wanted to put this down off the top of my head:…
Via The Chronicle, I found this editorial from a librarian. In it, he suggests that librarians are moving away from dealing with books and actual reading and focusing on information literacy, meaning navigating information in online databases and on the web. He calls this teaching “computer skills”: The buzzword in the trade is “information literacy,”…
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