Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2006/06/2006062801c/careers.html
A group of humanities faculty at MCC have started to dialogue about the humanities and what they “are.”  One of my colleagues and I are interested in how digital technologies have affected the production and consumption of the humanities. One issues that I have is with individuals who insist we teach the “canon” of literature, [...]

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http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1471/dispatches-from-wikimania
So some graduate student at the currently running wikipedia conference suggested that faculty have their students make, or revise, a wikipedia entry as an assignment. I LOVE IT! You would need to have wonderful rhetorical conversations with students about the purpose and audience of wikipedia. And this would give students a “real” audience and publishing [...]

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http://insidehighered.com/views/2006/08/07/wink
I needed to read this article right now…obviously there are enough of “us” out there that needed it, especially at the end of the semester. Like this woman, I too have not finished nearly enough of what I hoped to during the summer “break.” Beyond the “I’m not alone” message, it is the “we need [...]

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http://www.forbes.com/2006/07/29/cnn-news-video_cx_lh_0731cnn.html?partner=technology_newsletter
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 [...]

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Ok, so obviously I haven’t been a good little blogger. And now with two weeks before classes start, I need to get myself motivated to kick off the Fall semester with good habits, including regularly blogging. So I have lots of articles to comment on, and just need to be sure to keep myself thinking. [...]

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