Sunday, February 22, 2009
Behind the Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative
I'd be interested to hear about your state's program. Kansas has developed the Kansas Memory site. Here's info about my native state's proram.
Labels: archives, Kansas, missouri, state records
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Problem is the Solution: PBL in Social Studies
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Influencers On IT & Tech 2009 Trends Predictions, By Trendsspotting
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Monday, February 16, 2009
'Tis the Season
This is grant-writing season (March 9 is the due date and none of us wants to push that envelope this year - too much unnecessary stress) and it's been interesting working with some new partners.
I'm busy preparing and grading for classes now that the semester is in full gear as far as students go.
There's also quite a bit of work going on at my house - replacing the popcorn ceiling with an orange peel ceiling - fewer cobwebs and getting rid of the 15-year-old paint. It _almost_ looks like a brand new house. I'm also adding some color to walls. I moved in and only used an ivory paint during construction and had some of that redone about 8 years ago. Now, it's time to add some color. It's all moving a bit fast but I know I will be glad to have it done. And the man doing the work will do a lot of other odds and ends that either I don't have time to do or he can do much better/faster and/or that I just can't do.
Poor Molly is a little disoriented . . .
I'm also spending more time on Facebook . . .
I'm busy preparing and grading for classes now that the semester is in full gear as far as students go.
There's also quite a bit of work going on at my house - replacing the popcorn ceiling with an orange peel ceiling - fewer cobwebs and getting rid of the 15-year-old paint. It _almost_ looks like a brand new house. I'm also adding some color to walls. I moved in and only used an ivory paint during construction and had some of that redone about 8 years ago. Now, it's time to add some color. It's all moving a bit fast but I know I will be glad to have it done. And the man doing the work will do a lot of other odds and ends that either I don't have time to do or he can do much better/faster and/or that I just can't do.
Poor Molly is a little disoriented . . .
I'm also spending more time on Facebook . . .
Labels: classes, grants, house
Monday, February 09, 2009
rain in February?
This rain is supposed to be snow!!!! I'm afraid we're going to pay for this in March when we want the 70 degree weather.
The 60 mph winds this morning were also interesting .. . .
The 60 mph winds this morning were also interesting .. . .
Monday, February 02, 2009
How not to lose face on Facebook - from CHE
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
I arrived on Facebook courtesy of recent graduates who needed to keep in touch regarding teaching jobs and, quite possibly, because I was in their address book and they sent out "friend" invitations to everyone there, including old professors like me.
I've also experienced a student using the notes in Facebook as a "rate my professor" venting exercise even though he wasn't even my student but was just passing on what he had "heard". Another student brought it to my attention which meant action had to be taken - esp. when the student pointed out that this was embarrassing to everyone at the university, not just this student.
Most people of "my generation" are on Facebook to keep an eye on their teenage children and others become quite addicted when they find everyone they went to high school with. I found out the hard way that I don't want to know where everyone (all 232 of them) I went to high school with ended up. For me, it's been a less formal version of LinkedIn.
I actually prefer LinkedIn but no one seems to use it nearly as much as they do Facebook.
But I like the sharing features on other sites such as the New York Times that more commonly link to Facebook than to LinkedIn.
The primary rule that the author of this article didn't point out is that it's best to let your student friend you and not inappropriately friend them. And, even with graduate students I would advise caution given that that particular relationship can change in character over time - especially if the grad student gets distracted by their real life or doesn't pursue a research topic in the same way the professor would like them to do.
All in all, it pays to be cautious.
Venting to her friends on Facebook one night, a religion professor at Dartmouth College updated her profile to say that she had just consulted an online encyclopedia entry on "modernity" to prepare for her class the next day.
"I feel like such a fraud," she wrote on her profile. "Do you think dartmouth parents would be upset about paying $40,000 a year for their children to go here if they knew that certain professors were looking up stuff on Wikipedia and asking for advice from their Facebook friends on the night before the lecture?"
Her profile featured other comments as well, including a dig at her colleagues: "Some day, when i am chair, we're all going to JOG IN PLACE throughout the meeting. this should knock out at least half of the faculty within 10 minutes (especially the blowhards) & then the meeting can be ended in a timely manner."
Ouch.
I arrived on Facebook courtesy of recent graduates who needed to keep in touch regarding teaching jobs and, quite possibly, because I was in their address book and they sent out "friend" invitations to everyone there, including old professors like me.
I've also experienced a student using the notes in Facebook as a "rate my professor" venting exercise even though he wasn't even my student but was just passing on what he had "heard". Another student brought it to my attention which meant action had to be taken - esp. when the student pointed out that this was embarrassing to everyone at the university, not just this student.
Most people of "my generation" are on Facebook to keep an eye on their teenage children and others become quite addicted when they find everyone they went to high school with. I found out the hard way that I don't want to know where everyone (all 232 of them) I went to high school with ended up. For me, it's been a less formal version of LinkedIn.
I actually prefer LinkedIn but no one seems to use it nearly as much as they do Facebook.
But I like the sharing features on other sites such as the New York Times that more commonly link to Facebook than to LinkedIn.
The primary rule that the author of this article didn't point out is that it's best to let your student friend you and not inappropriately friend them. And, even with graduate students I would advise caution given that that particular relationship can change in character over time - especially if the grad student gets distracted by their real life or doesn't pursue a research topic in the same way the professor would like them to do.
All in all, it pays to be cautious.
Labels: CHE, Facebook, Linked In, online networking, professors, students, Web 2.0
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Daschle Knew of Tax Issues Over Car Use Last June - NYTimes.com
Daschle Knew of Tax Issues Over Car Use Last June - NYTimes.com: "“One of the problems here is what they set up as expectations,” said Martha Joynt Kumar, an expert in presidential transitions at Towson University. “If you have talked about the importance of ethics and set up the kind of rules they did on lobbying, then I think it sets expectations that yours is going to be an administration that is not going to have problems that others might have had.”"
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