A list of “digital accomplishments”

I’m afraid I probably won’t post much in-depth today, so here’s just a quick list of some “digital accomplishments”:

  • Had a good discussion in my first-year writing course about the “origins” of images online, particularly how Google image search doesn’t mean the image came from Google, but rather from a particular website—and then how you can use Google image search to track down the source of the image.
  • Had a wonderful lunch with rhetoric colleagues from across the university. An analog lunch.
  • Led a good discussion in Social Media and Society about remediation, media ideologies, and idioms of practice related to Gershon’s book The Breakup 2.0.
  • Updated my MacBook Air’s OS because that was more preferable to working on Desire2Learn.
  • Worked on my summer course on D2L, where I uploaded html pages, worked on some links, and finished the gradebook. More to do on that tonight.
  • Complained about the snirt that’s still here in Wisconsin.
More snirt. Ten feet of ugly frickin snirt.

More snirt. Ten feet of ugly frickin snirt.

D2L sucks so much I'd rather watch my software update than work on my course

D2L sucks so much I’d rather watch my software update than work on my course

Work at the cafe in the morning

I’ve got to make this post quickly: I have to finish up here at the coffee shop, walk to campus, and teach. What was this morning like? Woke up, checked email, Facebook, and Twitter in bed, got ready for the day and walked to the Goat, where I checked in on Foursquare.

Workspace at the Goat

Workspace at the Goat

Once here, I finished an assignment sheet for my students’ final project in Social Media and Society, uploaded it to D2L, checked Twitter and Facebook and saw responses to Margaret Thatcher’s death (like links to scenes from Billy Elliot), read John Walter’s excellent post about his Day of DH, lesson planned, read my students’ reading responses, and was reminded of this wonderful this wonderful Academic Tim Gunn post.

Off to go teach!

What’s in store for tomorrow?

I just signed up to blog for the Day of DH 2013. I thought I’d write a quick post in between grading and other work tonight to preview what I’ll be up to on Monday. I’ll wake up, walk to my favorite morning coffee shop, and do some rather traditional analog grading of reading responses and prep for my two classes on Monday. From there, I’ll head to campus. I teach first-year writing, and students are in the process of using Storify to write an “exploratory”/”literature review” type essay overviewing their research for their final projects. After FYC, I’ll head to a lunch meeting with other rhetoric scholars at UWEC (we’re trying to meet once a month or so, since we’re spread out in English, Journalism & Communication, and Business Communication). And then I’ll be teaching English 372: Social Media and Society. Students are tweeting and we’re currently reading Ilana Gershon’s The Breakup 2.0. When I can throughout the day, I’ll be prepping for my summer FYC course on Desire2Learn (yuck!) and working on my presentation for later this week at the 21st-Century Publishing: Industry, Media, and the Future of Print conference in Duluth.