I’m serving as a guest lecturer in one of SI’s undergraduate courses this week, and teaching is shaking up my week nicely. I haven’t taught in a classroom regularly since the fall of 2006, and I was eager to get back into the classroom. This week’s topic in the course is “The Business of...
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 →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 →I’m still working on my teaching statement for my Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor nomination. I can’t seem to get it right, and it can be only one page long. What do you think about this? Teaching in a professional program such as the School of Information Master’s degree program forces me to balance...
Read more →It’s time again for me to write a statement of teaching philosophy. My limit is one page. My brain is not working as well as one might hope. Here’s what I have for the middle. I’m still working on the intro and conclusion, which obviously will require edits to the middle. What do you...
Read more →In Monday’s New York Times, Jerome Karabel of UC-Berkeley contributed an interesting Op-Ed piece called “The New College Try.” In it, Karabel rails against the top tier universities in the country (and the systems that support them) for failing to provide access for low income students. As an Alumni Schools Committee co-chair, I spend...
Read more →John Bransford’s Learning Sciences Guest Lecture Book/research recommendations: The Mind at Work by Mike Rose Anders Ericsson (expert performance, experts resist automaticity) Quality of Life issues - health care, nutrition, finances, local environmental conditions (research within the LIFE Center) Themes - adaptive expertise – recognizing adaptability (when do my schemas apply?) innovation efficiency schemas...
Read more →Stuff to think about: 1:1 chats, social, work, coordination, interruption what about emotion, sarcasm, stuff you don’t want logged feature creep, federation Systems on the web: Babble – from IBM, designed for small, defined workgroups http://www.research.ibm.com/SocialComputing/babble.htm Adium – tabbed multi-client IM for Mac examples from logs: Adrienne Sat Jan 21 Ben on Yahoo Wed...
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