Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

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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Warning—this message is definitely more of a rant
In his book, Richardson spends a little time talking about what Educause, and others, refers to as the Net Generation. Clearly since Richardson is focused on K-12, his audience does fit that category more—at least the middle and upper class school populations. I think many university scholars researching [...]

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I am again responding to Will Richardson’s book…
…Context: I’m on a plane flying to Corpus Christi for a meeting on an executive committee I accidentally got myself elected to. I’m missing one of our podcasting FPLC meetings and we were going to talk about some chapters from the book. I’m also writing these as my [...]

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I firmly believe that some of my best ideas come from the fact that I do too much at once, multitask, etc., and “wires-cross.” In the act of crossing something funky emerges. So now that I’m starting to think/plan for wedding stuff, of course the geek has taken charge. So, last week I learned about [...]

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http://www.forbes.com/2006/07/29/cnn-news-video_cx_lh_0731cnn.html?partner=technology_newsletter
The rhetorician in me is fascinated by the fact that CNN has now made it standard practice to accept material from anyone willing to upload it. I feel that this is something connected to the fact that technology has allowed us to have so many different syndicated outlets that there is something specialized for small [...]

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http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1328/wikipedia-founder-discourages-academic-use-of-his-creation UGH! You can just look at the title of the link to know what the article is about. What bothers me about this is the total disregard for rhetoric. If you think rhetorically, anything can be an appropriate source dependent on the purpose and audience. And…Wikipedia is like any other encyclopedia…the beginning point [...]

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As I have desperately tried to get everything done before the end of the semester (grades are due tomorrow), I’ve also been bombarded with announcements for “opportunities” next academic year. Eek! Can you all let me finish this academic year first?
Anyhow, it looks like I might apply to join a learning community on our campus [...]

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Last night I had my writing group workshop a monograph I was working on for an online publication (I’ll post more details once I know it’s been accepted). In the piece I was discussing what types of support faculty need to work with newer technologies. While talking the group mentioned a few spots where I [...]

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I’ve been pretty dang sick this week. When I’ve been pushing my body at Mach 10 for too long, it just shuts down as a way to slow me down. This week it did that…and then the doctor prescribed something that I had an allergic reaction to…so needless to say I’ve been a little out [...]

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