There sure is a lot of noise out there about so-called “artificial intelligence.” (I won’t bother with the scare quotes through the whole post, but it’s worth noting: “AI” is a term that’s been in use, mostly for marketing, since the 1950s (here is the term’s original usage), and as…
I started a new job last week. I’m excited about it! I also want to issue this reminder: as has always been the case, my posts here represent my own feelings and opinions and not those of any employer, past, present, or future.
A Slack-type tool fills in a really important gap in student-student and student-professor communication. Without something Slack-like, your choices for communication are the learning management system (LMS) discussion boards or email. I think it’s uncontroversial to say we all hate LMS discussion boards. … As for email, I’ll go out on a limb and say that I suspect most professors do not enjoy answering multiple versions of the same question over and over, one by one, especially when they have to choose between knowing in their hearts that some students aren’t asking and won’t know, versus making yet another LMS announcement to address any given issue.
We’re rapidly approaching the time for the traditional year-end post, which I’ve been known to skip in recent years—I had a run of several really rough years, there. While 2019 wasn’t without personal challenges and setbacks (and a whole lot of frightening developments in the US and abroad), it brought…
Right now I should be grading or preparing for classes, but honestly I’m three blog posts behind where I wanted to be by now (I haven’t forgotten my WisCon promise to make a post about tabletop roleplaying games) and fighting a pretty nasty headache. So what if I take a…
TLDR: I took two classes this semester, and I’m going to teach at least one, probably 1.5, classes next semester. I’m super psyched about it. I’ll still work for the library where I’m an adjunct, too, but fewer hours per week. I’m still available for full-time hire, if you have data for me to work with.
(UPDATED) This is just a really quick post to say that DLF Forum is in my hometown, this year, and I’d love to meet up with some of my internet-and-conference friends, if travel and conference scheduling makes that a possibility for any of you! I live here, and most of our public transit is downtown-centered; I can come to you, or I can give you easy directions to meet me somewhere if you’re feeling adventurous.
Librarian colleagues, sometimes I find I have been wrong, and when that happens, I feel like I owe it to the profession to confess and recant. Some statements I have made about (primarily academic) libraries, that I will take back, or at least modify heavily, here: “If you own the…
I am teaching Introduction to Programming for Information Professionals, online, for the University of Maryland this semester. My colleague, Bill Kules, has taught this class (in person) several times and has included social justice/critical perspectives aspects in at least one prior semester (docx). We talked about including it in each…
