Jaimita Haskell, five years later
Half a decade ago, Jaimita (“Jay”) Haskell was upset about being tracked into the general curriculum at her Staten Island high school. She crafted a radio piece criticizing tracking, and in part because of her speaking up for herself, she was finally admitted into the honors classes she wanted. As she said towards the end […]
Small bits: gratitude through use and reciprocity
If you’re the parent or teacher of an adolescent, or an adolescent looking for concrete study skills, the best way to thank the folks who put together James Madison University’s Learning Toolbox is to use it. It contains a concise description of various study skills. A different way to be thankful for opportunities is to […]
Zotero – love at first byte
This tells you something about my semester: it’s taken until this weekend for me to try out Zotero, essentially an open-source citation database system. (I do wait until others on the bleeding edge show a new tool is useful, but I try to be in the second wave of adopters of useful tools.) It’s free, […]
Technology as culture, part 1
When the Honors College asked me to teach one of their lower-division arts/humanities classes this fall, I had two thoughts: If I do run for the leadership of the faculty union chapter, it’ll be an interesting semester. (For most faculty, an Honors College class is an overload, not part of the regular load.) I’m in […]
Guess who has poor information design?
By Sherman Dorn on November 25, 2007
Is there anyone else who is astounded that even after a redesign, the Educause Connect website is almost impossible for newcomers to navigate? I’m all for accommodating power users, but not on the face you show to the world, where you hope people will return after a first use!
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