Last week in a class conversation, I made mention of analog and digital. One student paused, and then asked if I could define analog since they weren’t familiar with the term. My response in the moment was to point at my ears, my eyes, and my mouth and its voice box as illustrations of analog… Continue reading The Overbranding of Digital
We’re so excited that the School of Information Sciences has a number of great courses this summer, with some, including my Informal Learning Spaces and Pedagogies class, open for enrollment for continuing education graduate credit. To learn more, jump over to http://emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/171116.html As regards my Informal Learning Spaces and Pedagogies course, it seeks to explore the… Continue reading Summer 2018 Courses of Possible Interest
Angie and I have continued to spend a little time here and there looking up some of our family history. Here’s a few highlights we’re putting next to a new European map we’re using to outline where our family lived before coming to the United States. Tom Sloan & Marjorie Pelser Married in Indiana, 1965… Continue reading Family History Highlights, January 2018
Here’s the poster and final version of my powerpoint talk, with notes, given this afternoon at the Community Informatics Research Network 2017 conference in Prato, Italy. We’ve been having an invigorating set of conversations between researchers and practitioners in Community Informatics and Community Archiving, seeking to address the special theme: Art as Archive: Archive as Art… Continue reading Momentum for Change: Creating a New Critical Sociotechnical Pedagogy for Digital Inclusion and Equity
Oktoberfest fundraiser. Community, family, friends, polka! Late night bike ride home. Dark, pothole, delayed ambulance. More dead than alive. Prepare for the worst. Well, maybe, just maybe, the best case, assisted living. Weeks with no memories. But wife, dear, loving, sweet, beautiful wife. And sons, and now daughter. Mom, sister, family and friends, visits. Laughter… Continue reading To Life, To Love, To Caring, To More
