In 2009 we began realizing the need to replace our home’s heating and cooling system. Our home was built around 1960 and we had already completed a range of home improvements including upgraded Low-E windows and increased wall and ceiling insulation. We lived in a mature neighborhood with large trees providing good shade in summer… Continue reading My Spring 2022 Home Repair Reflections
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
