Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

I know this. Really, I do. However, like so many people today I still get caught up equating the term “technology” with “computer technologies.” Or, I know that they are not the same; however, I am very guilty of saying “technology” and meaning “computer technology.” This last week in NYC, I had the visceral reminder [...]

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I am replying to another blog post…it didn’t like my long winded reply, LOL! )
Let me first apologize to Donna for taking so long to respond; however, I think these issues are at the crux of my professional identity. I identify as a rhetorician who is interested in the interfaces [...]

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I didn’t do much conference related stuff today. I was scheduled to sit at the newcomer’s booth from 9-10am. The booth didn’t get set up until 10am. So I sat and chatted with a colleague for an hour. I then helped hang the newcomer’s table sign with paperclips. Of course, I forgot to take a [...]

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I wish I had taken a picture; however, I’m not sure I could/can. (Another to-do, what are the ramifications of taking pictures of people, posting them to flickr, and then blogging about them?). Anyhow, so I had just come through security at the airport and looked up at a white man in a suite getting [...]

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Ok, so I’m liking Twitter. I would really like it if my both my roommate and my partner in scholarly crime (I’ll get pictures later) would do it—we would then be updated with who is doing what, where! However, I’m liking that it functions as a tracking mechanism…if I do it regularly during the day [...]

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Yesterday on the plane I caught up with this rant…

http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/
I’m always excited to find a listing of “new” technologies; however, I’m taking this list to “task” for another reason. Where is the “pedagogical innovation with new technology” award? In other words, it’s one thing to make these tools (and obviously part of the criteria on [...]

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At first I was…eeek, I still need to get ready and I’ll have to get up super early to get stuff done. And then I smile…getting up early just gets me used to EST quicker in my trip. I have to get up early W-Sat…so might as well get on their time table now. Despite [...]

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I’ll be heading off to this year’s 4Cs (Conference on College Composition and Communication) conference in NYC next Tuesday. Instead of taking a pile of work that I should, but never do, get done during the conference, I’m going to focus on the conference (what a concept). Part of this focus comes from the desire [...]

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So…I facilitated two “new” technology workshops in our district this semester (2/24 and 3/1). I forgot what I originally wanted to name the workshops; however, because people wanted the name more descriptive, we got: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies: Blogs, Wikis, RSS, and Social Bookmarking. Since I still think “Keeping up with the Jetsons” [...]

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