Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

Personal portals allow individuals to construct an internet browser homepage (default page) with tools and links that are relevant and regularly used. Once you set up a personal portal account, you are able to customize your page/s with internet resources that are most useful to you. Most personal portal tools allow you to add specific [...]

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(Remember, I teach first year composition courses. In these courses, especially the ones with research agendas, I have to teach information literacy.)
We are living in an age of information overload. You are probably already overloaded by all the of the information available on your general topic. To help you filter through that information, and to [...]

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(I’m sure some of you are saying, “come on, do you really need to explain this?” And the answer is “yes.” As I love to harp, not all of my students are Educause’s “net generation.” And even some of those who are still do not necessarily understand all of these distinctions.)
Have you ever notices that [...]

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(if you are using another bookmarking tool like del.icio.us or Digg just change some verbage below)
Furl is a social bookmarking website. If you’ve used “my favorites” in Internet Explorer, or bookmarks in Firefox, you will know the usefulness of bookmarks; however, bookmarks saved on your computer can not travel or be shared with anyone. For [...]

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This is just another quick reflection on a recent activity. For a couple years know I have been invited to participate on a co-panel about Teaching and Technology at MCC for our New Faculty Experience program. Of course, this year I was so excited about the various technologies I’ve been playing with, I babbled. But [...]

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On January 5, 2007, I needed to clone myself! Since I had participated in our district’s SoTL internship program last year, and was doing more work with Ocotillo this year, I needed to be in two spots at once at our District Convocation. Basically I had a poster up at the MIL section, and tried [...]

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So this past weekend, 1/26-28/07, I flew down to Corpus Christi to meet with the newly elected board members of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA). And I’ll be honest, I’m still asking myself how the hell I got myself elected to the executive board, as secretary non-the-less? Yeah…I worked hardest this weekend in the [...]

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Whew…the final thing to catch up with on reporting out from traveling in Fall 2006. Thomson-Wadsworth, the textbook company I have signed a contract with to write a researcher for FYC, asked my co-author and I to present at a workshop they hosted in Las Vegas (some pics). The “Keeping up with the [...]

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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 [...]

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