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...
View ArticleHey 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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleDo 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...
View ArticleI 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...
View ArticleAmbitious 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...
View ArticleAmbitious 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...
View ArticleDeleting 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleNew 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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