A few months back I moderated a panel at the Next Generation Teaching and Learning Symposium at UC Berkeley, an all-day event keynoted by Social Media Classroom creator (and fellow Reed alum, how about that) Howard Rheingold. Event organizers recently posted video for each session: Having endured the singularly unpleasant experience of watching myself talk... Continue Reading →
updated technology survey instrument.
In response to a recent uptick in interest in the template survey instrument I designed for Informing Innovation, I'm distributing a newer, quite different, and more academic technology-focused instrument that I recently created for a local project at UCB. It's a working copy not formatted to any degree of fanciness and was also intended to... Continue Reading →
amen to open IT policies.
A recent post on Library Web Chic hits the restrictive-tech-policies-in-libraries-must-go nail on the head. Here is Karen's list of arguments against library systems that don't allow their employees to download and install software freely: To work effectively in a Library 2.0 world, library staff need the ability to experiment and try things. In fact they... Continue Reading →