Pictura invisibilis collegio artium digital
In the 1960s, Derek Price and Diana Crane popularized a description of the informal knowledge sharing of in-groups as “invisible colleges,” professional networks that share unwritten or hard-to-describe ways of working inside a field, a circle of teaching that by its informal nature excludes those outside the network. The concept of an invisible college is […]
One Week, Better Tools (spoof)
While several of my friends have been working hard this week on developing a new digital-humanities tool at One Week | One Tool: A Digital Humanities Barnraising, I’ve been spoofing their original Ideascale site to get feedback on options Monday and Tuesday with One Week, Better Tools. Or as I explain on the site: We’re […]
Michael Olneck on badges
U. Wisconsin professor emeritus and sociologist Michael Olneck wrote me the following in response to my 2011 blog entry on badges and exchange credentials: I was reading your September 25, 2011 blog, “‘Credentialized badge’” is an oxymoron?,” in which you identify Scouting merit badges (and associated ranks) with “nominal,” rather than “exchange-based” credentials. I think […]