New Schedule Posted

Laura Blankenship February 14th, 2008

The New Media Lab schedule for the spring semester has been posted.

Scholarship 2.0

Laura Blankenship January 12th, 2008

For the last two days, I’ve been at NITLE’s Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in the Digital Age conference.  It’s been a great conference so far.  Both Tim and Kathleen have been liveblogging the panels and have really good notes and commentary on each of those sessions.  Here are what I think are some key points so far:

  • Scholarship needs to change
  • Promotion and tenure requirements often get in the way of pursuing new forms of scholarship
  • Many issues about publishing digitally have yet to be worked out
  • There are lots of interesting projects being pursued, often out of sheer devotion to a topic
  • It’s difficult to get faculty to participate in projects, and to weigh in on the issues

I’m looking forward to a few more good sessions today.

An Academic Facebook

Laura Blankenship November 9th, 2007

Via the Wired Campus Blog, I found Pronetos, a facebook-like app for sharing research and connecting with scholars. I like the look and feel of it. It’s missing some of the more fun elements of social networking, but it’s definitely got potential. Of course, I set up an account. Like I needed another social networking account . . .