Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

Joe and I “opened” the Newcomer’s Welcome booth at 9:00am Wednesday morning at CCCCs. Well, at least we tried. Since we didn’t have a booth until about 9:55am, we hung out, chatted, said “hi” to people we hadn’t seen in a year, etc. Once the booth got set up we spent the last 5 minutes [...]

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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 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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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 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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I have to admit, as much as I love the New Media Consortium (nmc), I was a little frustrated with the 2006 regional conference. One of their tracks was on the future of scholarship. As a two year college faculty member, I find that various new media make scholarly activities more doable with a high [...]

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