Review of How Minds Change by David McRaney
David McRaney’s book How Minds Change: The New Science of Belief, Opinion and Persuasion (2022) offers a view of change that is both hopeful and frustrating. On the one hand, …
Review of The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
David Graeber never fails to radically reshape my view of the world with his research-informed writing and investigations into things many of us have taken for granted so long we …
Journey into Online Course Development
As part of my efforts to make science fiction scholarship more accessible, I have begun the journey into online course development and created a mini-course called “Dune 101” based on …
WomenTech Global Conference 2022 Takeaways
The WomenTech Global Conference 2022 (#WTGC2022) was a breath of fresh air mid-year, as it has been for the past couple of years. Although I am only able to attend sessions …
Notes from Gender and Education Association Conference 2018
Gender and Education Association Conference 2018 University of Newcastle (Newcastle, Australia) December 9-12, 2018 The Gender and Education Association (GEA)’s 2018 conference was held in Australia this time around, which …
Innovative Pedagogies by Professor Peggy Ertmer
Increasing Teachers’ Capacity for Innovative Learning Pedagogies By Professor Peggy A. Ertmer, Learning Design and Technology (Purdue University Professor Peggy A. Ertmer gave a prestige lecture on April 27, 2016, …
Highlights from 2015 Digital Humanities Conference in Sydney
One of the interesting aspects at the 2015 Global Digital Humanities Conference in Sydney was learning about the struggles in DH, which you don’t often hear about in academia. Because …
Issues in Digital Humanities, Data, and GLAM
These notes are from the National Digital Forum (NDF) Barcamp in Christchurch and two presentations by Adrian Kingston, Digital Collections Senior Analyst at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington. …
Digital Humanities New Scholars Seminar – Day 1
Attending the New Scholars Seminar put on by CHCI (Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes) as an “unconference” on June 29-30, 2015, before the Global Digital Humanities Conference in Sydney, …