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Platforms in education: A need for criticality and hope

(Notes from my talk at the Council on Independent Colleges / ARTSTOR Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and Research on September 7, 2017. Original talk title: Possible worlds, possible...

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Hey fam—saw you facebooking…

…and I was wondering… Would you be willing to stop sharing terrible stuff? I’m not even talking about racist stuff. Or misogynistic stuff. Or hateful things about immigrants and liberals. Though, at...

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This is the song when the sun sets

I. Song Every morning as I’m waking up, my brain picks a song and turns it up to 11. It’s annoying. It’s like the radio clock in Groundhog Day, except that it’s a different song most days. via GIPHY...

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Do not track (an #OLCInnovate plea) – updated 4/30/18

At the OLC Innovate conference—a conference where I was presenting with Adam Croom about the need to be more thoughtful and careful with student data—I ran into my own issues with unnecessary...

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I will remember you by the river

Two weeks ago today, we had to put our dog to sleep. My dog. Sam. Sam was my dog for almost sixteen years. I got him when he was just a few weeks old. I was still in my first marriage, though not for...

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Ambitious futures for (digital) education: Perspectives from Tropicália –...

[Slides and notes from my recent #Domains19 keynote on June 11, 2019 in Durham, NC. Part 1 – Part 2 Video forthcoming! A huge thanks to that amazing and supportive community. Giving this talk was a...

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Ambitious futures for (digital) education: Perspectives from Tropicália –...

[Slides and notes from my recent #Domains19 keynote on June 11, 2019 in Durham, NC. Video forthcoming! A huge thanks to that amazing and supportive community. Giving this talk was a real treat and only...

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Deleting tweets (non-techie starts her personal information environmentalism...

[This is a re-post from our old Digital Learning blog, which is now defunct. No changes were made to the original post] Confession: I’m not a coder. I haven’t coded since grad school, when I learned...

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What about those love locks? An invitation to explore the messiness of open...

These are my speaking notes from the 2020 Viva Open & Affordable Course Content Forum keynote. Slides are viewable here. Those of you who attended last year’s conference may know that the keynote...

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New co-authored paper: Surveillance practices, risks and responses in the...

Abstract: This paper describes and critiques how surveillance is situated and evolving in higher education settings, with a focus on the surveillance of teaching and learning. It argues that...

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