I like a Patagonia tooth fish (a.k.a. Chilean sea bass) as much as the next girl, maybe even more, but it’s time for me to be more responsible with my seafood selections. Luckily, the Environmental Defense Fund makes that ridiculously easy by providing both a PDF and a mobile-web viewable version of their Seafood...
Read more →I’m hosting a workshop at ICLS 2008 with Stephanie Teasley, Volker Wulf, Eric Cook, and Jude Yew – The Missing Chapters: Learning Sciences Beyond the Classroom. This workshop will provide momentum toward building a community of Learning Sciences researchers who focus on learning that takes place in non-traditional contexts with learners of any age....
Read more →See, here’s a TeX tip already. I have a somewhat strange filing system on my computer. It’s marked by a number of behaviors that don’t work smoothly with TeX – storing images in their own folder, keeping one giant references file instead of different ones for each paper, putting the main tex file in...
Read more →I’ve switched many of my writing tasks to TeX, and it’s time I talked about that decision. I wrote a paper for a class last term in TeX, and I think that was the official beginning. Well, I guess I’d tried and failed to write a paper in TeX before, so my paper for...
Read more →Lifehacker comes through again with something fun. This time, it’s a software Easter Egg – emacs Therapist! To use the emacs Therapist (Mac OS X only), open Terminal, type emacs, hit return, hit Escape, then type xdoctor. You get Eliza. Ha! That can kill some time. If you’re looking for other ways to kill...
Read more →In one of last week’s Wall Street Journals, there was a thoughtful little piece about our near-helplessness in the face of all the information available online. You can read it here. Lee Gomes compares us humans and the internet to cats and laser pointers. Trust me, it kind of works. I admit, mostly I...
Read more →Writing is incredibly hard. Well, good writing is anyway. I’ve had the fortune to get some writing guidance in person from Karl Weick and in book form from Howard Becker. I thought you might enjoy some of their tips as well. I’ve shared these with my students, and the ones who tried them did...
Read more →I’ll be in the Seattle area this summer working for Microsoft Research. I’m excited about my internship with Andy Begel in the Human Interactions in Programming group. I’ll get to study newly hired developers and hopefully help make their lives a little easier. I won’t be building anything, which is a relief. I mentioned...
Read more →Check it out: To: Libby Hemphill I'm pleased to announce that you have been selected to receive an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for 2007-2008. You were chosen from an especially impressive group of nominees representing schools and colleges across the University. ... ---Homer Rose I’m pretty excited and grateful for the award. Thank...
Read more →Ok, so now I’ve done some reading, and I have dusted some of the luster off the academia-business divide. (It’s Friday; I wrote another proposal draft yesterday; I’ll be unpredictable today.) I’m reading Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software, 2007″ report. I got it from Socialtext, but I’m not sure how. ...
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