In a recent blog post, Greg McVerry examines the challenges and opportunities of injecting some IndieWeb philosophies into Google Scholar, and other systems for tracking, citing, and identifying publications. His post closes with the following statement: Citations stink. Like I said a canonical link as citation is my dream but we are way off from…
I’ve written quite a bit about blogging, and my creation of open education resources over the past on this website. A lot has changed in my blogging habits, and general digital identity construction since those posts. Most of the response that I get from colleagues, students, and tenure committees is “why in the world would…
As technology and global connectivity become more ubiquitous in society, we become more accustomed to ubiquitous access to our data for little, to no cost. As digital technologies connect us, we also realize there is not much of a difference between the online and the offline, “real spaces” around us in which we exist. In…
In an earlier post, I presented an overview of the literature on critical literacy and how it informs my perspectives on my work, research, and thinking. This was motivated by discussions in which colleagues and students indicate that they know/understand critical literacy, and then go on to equate it with critical evaluation. I think the…
Critical literacy is one of the key perspectives that informs my teaching, research, and thinking. It informs all of the work that I do, and fundamentally impacts everything from the ways in which I view the world, to the very tweets that I send out on a daily basis. It plays a role in guiding…
One helpful focus that I’ve found in Stoic philosophies is the opportunity to consider our lives as an ongoing project. This includes a regular journey of ethical self-development. I first started this journey as I had just graduated from college. My Aunt and Uncle indicated that I had a job and was single with no…
The term empowerment, or an indication of a focus on empowering students or teachers, pops up again and again in my research and publications. One of the first instances is in my dissertation proposal and final materials. When I started writing about this, I received a lot of negative feedback from advisors in my program…
When we are working in an online, hyperlinked environment, a search engine no longer determines what we read. Instead upvotes, shared links and proprietary algorithms mold our meaning making and they play an essential role in what we access across a variety of platforms. Comprehension occurs in the cloud, as we increasingly crowd-source our text…
At no point in our history has text, the basic units of literacy undergone so much transition. The fundamental elements of what constitutes “text” is modified as our world moves quickly from print to pixel. With this transition, much of the challenge exists not only with the rapidity with which this transition occurs, but with…
Lately I’ve been conducting a lot of research into the ways in which people engage in discussion or comment online. This includes the ways in which we share and favorite or retweet (RT) content on Twitter. This also includes comments on Facebook and reactions (i.e., like, love, haha, wow, sad, angry). In this work, I’ve found…