Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

Many of our “traditional” aged students already have the tools to compose multimodal compositions, multimodal pieces of art, right in their cell phones. They do not eschew the humanities, they just need someone to help make the explicit connection between what they are currently doing, and humanistic traditions of the past. Shows like Battlestar Galactica [...]

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http://lifehacker.com/software/pdf/geek-to-live–organize-your-pdf-library-with-itunes-240447.php
Wow…and I’ve spent lots of time finding stuff to organize web research, but this is cool! I’ve been sold on social bookmarking sites for a couple of years now. And now I’m starting to like these various “clipping” or “notetaking” type bookmarking tools as well. However, the problem with most of them is that they [...]

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Well, I’ve had my Sandbox series this year. It didn’t end so hot this spring semester. Between my changing calendar and the CTLs new workshop scheduling system…we didn’t see much happening. However, I think the CTL and I got the word out to a number of faculty and staff about some cool tools. In the [...]

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Well…I had good intentions. I got some pictures (notice, however, I’m not alone in cccc07 pics). Stacey got one video up to YouTube. But I didn’t do any audio recording. And that is what my Podcasting FPLC really wanted me to do! I think Duku’s speech during the opening session helped me to understand why [...]

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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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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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