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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This past January I had a friend build me my first “home built” desktop. I named her Starbuck, after the hotshot pilot on Battlestar Distractica. Well she has definitely taken after her namesake. She rocks…when she’s on, she’s hot. But she is also one temperamental beaoch. She has been in and out of the shop [...]

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If you are like I am, having students demo all different technologies each semester, it means both you and your students have accounts all over the web. Tabber looks like a tool that can help an instructor bringing it all together. So, if you have students with multiple accounts (for example a social bookmarking [...]

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Spock
(from: http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9708718-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware)
If Spock works…it could be an interesting way for individuals to clean up their identities on the web. Think about your students with “2sexxxy4u<at>yahoo.com” email address, or, other stuff graduate students have done and don’t want found when they go on the job market? Although I don’t see this tool being anything that I [...]

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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 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 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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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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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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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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