Musings

The Pepper Spray Incident…

November 23, 2011

Unless you live under a rock, you have seen the Pepper Spray Incident at UC Davis as well as the scores of the Pepper Spray Cop memes. Yes, I do have another meme of my own of this horrifyingly casual display of arrogant authority. Memes help cut the tension and technical people do have a [...]

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A Computer Can’t Love You…..

September 8, 2011

This article caught my attention Sunday: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/technology/technology-in-schools-faces-questions-on-value.html I have done a number of Digital Divide projects since 2000 including the Dignity Project, the Reichert House and currently, the CRTA at Lutheran Social Services of North Florida. Most of my projects have been focused primarily on young people. The Dignity Project served young people in foster [...]

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Moving On, Out and Up…..

September 7, 2011

Since 2007, I have worked within the FSU College of Communication &  Information  to develop Project SPARTA, a service learning program based on my belief that academic work must be augmented by practical, hands-on experience guided by  caring, involved mentors.   Approximately 700 students have participated in SPARTA in some form since its beginning, finding their [...]

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Teaching vs Mentoring

August 16, 2011

I said to my TA a while back that I am a better mentor than a teacher. I have thought a lot about that pearl of wisdom since then and it occurs to me that there are two kinds of teaching – externally structured classroom teaching and internally structured mentoring. Teaching that is externally structured [...]

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Women in IT

July 7, 2008

My colleague at FSU’s College of Information, Dr. Mia Lustria, sent me this article last week: http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb011607-story03.html concerning a Gartner survey presented last October that documents the declining numbers of women entering – or staying in – the IT profession. Because I am so personally concerned with increasing the numbers of women in IT, I [...]

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