Laura Blankenship September 26th, 2007
Another fun-filled episode. We talk email, lolcats, Google book and infoboards.
Relevant links:
Google books text feature (try using the text select feature on this page)
Laura Blankenship September 13th, 2007
Today Mark and I talked to Leslie Madsen-Brooks from the University of California-Davis and Jerome Delacroix, a member of the editorial board for Citizendium, a wiki encyclopedia project that seeks to remedy some of the problems with Wikipedia. Their approach is to have contributors use their real names and to have an actual editorial process. They seek to get academics involved as much as possible but are open to amateur contributions as well. This conversation arose out of a blog post by Madsen-Brooks where she questioned the “gatekeeperesque” stance Citizendium has taken and its effect on marginalized groups such as women and minorities. We discuss Citizendium’s editorial process and goals as well as the issues raised by Madsen-Brooks. It’s an interesting conversation. Take a listen.
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Laura Blankenship September 8th, 2007
This week, Mark and I talk to Shannon Hauser, a Sophomore at University of Mary Washington who blogs at Loaded Learning. She participated in a Freshman Seminar that incorporated blogging and also works for the Division of Teaching and Learning Technology at UMW. She talks about how blogging has enhanced her education and taken it beyond the classroom. Enjoy! (21 mb file)
Laura Blankenship July 17th, 2007
Mark flies solo and breaks down the latest salvo from Michael Gorman, noted library curmudgeon, with guest Jon Mark Bolthouse of the University of Wisconsin Colleges.
References include Scott McLemee’s article summarizing the Gorman post on Inside Higher Ed, Steven Bell, and of course Michael Gorman
Enjoy!
Episode 18 (approx. 33 min., 35 Mb)
Laura Blankenship June 20th, 2007
This week, Mark and I talked to Tim Burke from Swarthmore College and Collin Brooke from Syracuse University about various issues related to Academic Publishing in the web 2.0 world. They’ve both written in their blogs about these issues. Here are some of the posts that inspired the show:
Fun with Intellectual Property Issues
If Tuesday Began with the letters CSH
Is it really so complicated?
We covered a lot of ground, from the economics of publishing to tenure and promotion to tagging. I think the words of the day were “distribution” and “circulation.”
Enjoy!
Episode 17 (mp3; approx. 40 mb)
Tags: podcast, academe, publishing, web2.0
Laura Blankenship June 15th, 2007
This week, while Mark was basking at the beach, I talked to Lindsay Gold and Liz Newbury, two former Bryn Mawr students who are also gamers. We talked extensively about issues we see surrounding women getting involved in gaming. They did a presentation for our department on the Wii, WoW, and Second Life. I recorded that presentation and will post it later. In the meantime, take a listen to my interview with them.
Episode 16 (mp3, approx. 24 mb)
Laura Blankenship June 8th, 2007
In this episode, we cover several bibliography tools and issues surrounding their use.
Episode 15 (mp3, about 16mb)
Links we covered:
My EndNote
Zotero
CiteULike
BibMe
Want us to cover something in a podcast? Email us at lblanken [at] brynmawr [dot] edu or mcolvson [at] brynmawr [dot] edu or tag it in del.icio.us with bmcpodcast. Or leave us a comment here. We’ll take feedback and suggestions in any form!
Tags: bibliography, web, education, podcast
Laura Blankenship June 1st, 2007
This week I talked to our new Summer Multimedia Interns. They talk about what they’re looking forward to this summer, how they use technology, social networking and more.
Laura Blankenship May 24th, 2007
I had the great pleasure of talking to some of the organizers and participants of this year’s Faculty Academy. Because of a software crash, I lost the conversation with two of the guest speakers, Barbara Ganley and Alan Levine. I left Alan’s hello in just to prove he really was there. I’m hoping he’ll come back again as a guest to talk about the NMC and Second Life. The show is broken into roughly two parts. In the first part, Mark Colvson and I talk to Jeff McClurken, professor of History and American Studies at UMW about his presentation and his general involvement in Faculty Academy. We also discuss Karen Stephenson’s amazing keynote presentation on networks within organizations. Stephenson was a Hepburn Center fellow and presented some of the work she did with Bryn Mawr students. In the second part, I got together with Martha Burtis, Acting Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies, Gardner Campbell, professor of English, Jerry Slezak, Acting Assistant Direct of DTLT, and Jeff McClurken to talk more. Interesting conversations all the way around. Enjoy.
FA-07 (m4a file with chapter markers)
FA-07 (mp3 file)
Tags: fa07, education, technology