If you live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, it’s hard not to notice the billboards and posters advertising the Williamsburg Success Academy Charter School. I snapped these shots a few weeks ago, as I walked into the subway station near my home and felt my jaw drop at the audacity of the school’s promoters. Take this first [...]
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Writing Process
by Kiersten Greene
Published on December 17, 2011 10:26 am.Every semester of graduate school so far has been marked by some event. For better or for worse, several of those events have been, for me, injuries. I fractured my tailbone at the end of July (a swimming accident), and then broke my toe about a month ago (a less glamorous fall in the middle [...]
Digital Humanities in the Classroom
by Kiersten Greene
Published on October 19, 2011 11:47 am.As I get my feet wet with this public-blogging thing (intentionally public, anyway–this isn’t the first time I’ve blogged publicly, but it’s the first time I’ve done so while trying to capture the attention of a specific audience and string a common thread through my posts), there is a growing pile (digital and otherwise) of [...]
From Journal to Blog
by Kiersten Greene
Published on October 14, 2011 5:23 pm.So much has been going on, it’s hard to figure out what to write about! I was back down at Occupy Wall Street this morning, and I am impressed that it’s still going strong. It makes me hopeful about what is possible. In the meantime, I got some helpful feedback about digital organization systems for [...]
Using Blogs as Data Collectors
by Kiersten Greene
Published on October 6, 2011 9:25 am.When I started graduate school, web-based reference tools were only just being developed. At the time, I was using Endnote to keep track of my citations. That is, until I clumsily tripped over the cord attached to my iBook. This was before the cord was magnetic, and I watched in stop-action as all of my [...]
Pednology, or Maybe Techagogy
by Kiersten Greene
Published on September 2, 2011 10:25 am.Yesterday’s post marked the start of me trying to work out, in writing, some of the questions I have about pedagogy and technology. I’ve been spending more time with my computer than any other object in my life for at least the last ten years, and there are (many) things that have developed or changed over [...]
Where Physical Ends and Digital Begins
by Kiersten Greene
Published on September 1, 2011 12:17 am.How often do you still download a document, or go to the site of a periodical you used to get in the mail every week, and approach it as a concrete piece of the physical world? How has the switch from print to digital affected how you engage with what you’re reading/learning? I grew up [...]
