Profession
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Social Media, Service, and the Perils of Scholarly Affect
editors’ picks
I am not a scholar, at least not in the traditional sense. Almost 5 years ago, I wrote How Highered Makes Most Things Meaningless [http://collegereadywriting.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-higher-ed-makes-most-things.html] . It
Play in Education
Profession
This episode explores the assertion that “play is serious business” and tests the ways in which it can be applied to today’s educational environments.
A Letter to the Humanities: DH Will Not Save You
Digital Humanities
Adeline Koh will be teaching theIdentity [https://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/institute-2015/session/identity/]track for Digital Pedagogy Lab in August 2015. To find out more about her track and to enroll, visitDigital Pedagogy
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LibGuides: Pedagogy to Oppress?
Libraries
You have to be a pretty tenacious researcher to find any criticism about LibGuides, the practical and convenient tool that librarians use to create online guides to research. My search for “LibGuides and
CFP: The Scholarly & the Digital
Calls for Papers
“What is new and which affects the idea of the work comes not necessarily from the internal recasting of each of these disciplines, but rather from their encounter in relation to an object
Spect-ops at Harvard: How a World-leading University Reacts to Techno-centrism
Digital culture
“Screens so hi-def you might as well be there, cost effective videophonic conferencing, internal Froxx CD-ROM, electronic couture, all-in-one consoles (…) Half of all metro Bostonians now work from home via some digital link.
Maggie's Digital Content Farm
Digital Writing
This piece was contributed as part of Hybrid Pedagogy‘s Digital Writing Month [http://www.digiwrimo.com]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over the course of the last 6 months or so, I’ve felt a real
Syllabus as Manifesto: A Critical Approach to Classroom Culture
Composition
This article is the first in a two-part series. “Envisioning the Radical Syllabus: A Critical Approach to Classroom Culture, Part 2 [https://hybridpedagogy.org/envisioning-radical-syllabus/]” provides response and follow-up from the author. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Re-Authoring the Adjunct Experience: 5 Talking Points
Academic Labor
Writing the adjunct experience is its own genre now, having emerged from the duress of countless contingent laborers who are tired of marginalization. We are academe’s scapegoat. What I want now is
Developer, Financier, Designer: Building Hybrid Projects outside the University
Open Education
“I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities — and found no statues of Committees.”~ G K Chesterston About two years ago circumstances reduced my full time job in a UK university
Bend Until It Breaks: Digital Humanities and Resistance
Copyright
“The problem is to begin with a conception of power relations that grants that resistance is always possible but not always successful.”~ David Sholle, “Resistance: Pinning Down a Wandering Concept in Cultural Studies
11 min read
On Being a Double Agent
Community
When I was in graduate school working on my Ph.D. in English, I spent quite a few hours in the TA office, an expansive room in the basement of the English building,
Finding My Voice as a Minority Teacher
Academic Labor
As a high-school teacher, I kept quiet about my sexuality because I didn’t want to draw attention to it. Instead, I created a deafening silence, a vacuum that tugged on everything around
Pursuing a Social Media Policy that Supports Academic Freedom
Digital culture
Last year, my then-employer, Charleston Southern University [http://www.csuniv.edu/] (CSU), instituted a new social media policy. Though I believe it was largely unintended, that policy (which is still available on CSU’