In Praise of Twitter
Getting purple tipped hair in SL to match purple streaked hair in RL $300ishL, Getting purple boots to match purple tipped hair $300ishL, Shopping in SL with good friends in RL who live on different sides of the US...priceless! pic of Kix and I (Puppytoes) bald in Second Life After today, my Follow Cost in Twitter is definitely going to go up! As of today, my follow cost is 2.27 per day with 13.55 per day with the last 100 updates. So those …
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| November 05 2008 | CommentsPosted in 21st Century Scholarship
Peer Review and Radiohead
I know what the hell do peer review, or scholarship in general, have to do with Radiohead? But come on, isn’t “you give us what you think it is worth” the ultimate form of review? Carlson @ TechHerding asks a good question about what would happen to technical training if it were to happen via the Radiohead model. I also think he provides …
...Continued | January 02 2008 | CommentsPosted in 21st Century Scholarship
Audio and Visual Journals
While I’ve tried to get myself blogging more often (I’ve got a backlog of blog posts from a conference this past weekend...coming to you sometime this weekend), I’m also testing out other “journaling” methods related to the various projects I’ve got going. First, I’ve been trying to play with simple podcasting, using Gabcast, as a way to journal my activities for our new technology Faculty and Professional Learning FPLC. I had this brainstorm the other night as I was crazily putting together a course about …
...Continued | October 18 2007 | CommentsPosted in 21st Century Scholarship
Visible vs. Invisible Work
For those readers who do not already know, I’ve shifted jobs this academic year. Mesa’s instructional technologist decided she missed the classroom and transferred to a full-time teaching position in the Math department at Scottsdale CC. (Donna...I wish you the happiest!) So, I’m “playing Donna” as I’ve been telling people. I am acting as Mesa’s instructional technologist during the next academic year while we do a full-search for a replacement. Since I’ve started working in this position last July, I’ve realized two things: 1.I have more patience with my students then …
...Continued | September 11 2007 | CommentsPosted in 21st Century Scholarship
The Content is in the Replies
I know I’m not the only grad student to have realized that occasionally the footnotes of any given text where infinitely more important than the actual text in the document. I think I’ve already harped that blogs will be an important part of scholarship in the 21st century. However, after reading the newspaper posting about one of my colleagues and the Inside Higher Education posting about “The Professor’s Ten Commandments,” I think that like footnotes in some articles, …
...Continued | September 11 2007 | CommentsPosted in 21st Century Scholarship
Let’s make skinny the fashion for scholarship
Reading Saikat Majumdar’s (2007) opinion piece “The Fetish of Fullness” (College English, 69(6), 642-654), relatively soon after reading Jakob Nielsen’s (2007) “Write Articles, Not Blog Postings” has returned me to thinking about scholarship in the 21st century. Earlier this summer, I blogged about the practicality of conducting SoTL research (and heck, research in general as a two-year college faculty member). I claimed that we should acknowledge that legitimate scholarship might emerge in short bursts based on the context, …
...Continued | July 26 2007 | CommentsPosted in 21st Century Scholarship
The Practicality of SoTL
I love the serendipity of reading, reviewing, thinking, etc. For a while I’ve been thinking about a different type of scholarship that I feel I’ve been doing. It is something that emerges out of my context as a researcher at the community college. Although I am invested in doing serious critical research, I am in an environment that focuses on the practice of teaching. Research is both above and beyond my direct responsibilities, teaching, and is really only appreciated if it is directly related to and useful towards my teaching. As …
...Continued | July 07 2007 | CommentsPosted in 21st Century Scholarship
Being Dr. StrangeScholar - Embracing Chaos
Well…I think I’ve found another “name” for my scholarly identity. Last year I came up with committed technofile (the name of this blog). And I definitely think of myself as such; however, as I’ve started to develop my scholarly interests and projects along the issues of the future of scholarship, media and scholarship, and scholarship at/as two year college/s faculty I’ve found another. I have found that I like, and have more fun, presenting scholarship (in person or on paper) with a narrative framework. I have played with these things for …
...Continued | February 01 2007 | CommentsPosted in 21st Century Scholarship
The Merging of Author and Audience
Forbes Article I’m Ranting About The rhetorician in me is fascinated by the fact that CNN has now made it standard practice to accept material from anyone willing to upload it. I feel that this is something connected to the fact that technology has allowed us to have so many different syndicated outlets that there is something specialized for small discourse/focus communities. In other words, we can have so many network stations with digital cable and highly specialized advertising. And now, we can have specialized news that we, ourselves, submit …
...Continued | August 07 2006 | CommentsPosted in 21st Century Scholarship
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