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- Liz Dorland is an academic coordinator and education specialist with interests in faculty, curriculum, and grants development at Washington University in St. Louis. From the fall of 1985 to the spring of 2006, Liz taught chemistry in the Maricopa County Community College District in Arizona. In addition, she was a chemistry program officer in the Division of Undergraduate Education, Directorate of Education and Human Resources at the National Science Foundation from Aug. 2003 - Aug. 2004. From 1972-1985, Liz taught general and organic chemistry in various community colleges and universities around the USA. Past projects involving chemistry and computers include data collection in the laboratory using laptops with Vernier probes, online molecular visualization with CHIME, and the use of WebCT to deliver weekly homework quizzes and course resources. Current interests include research-based use of molecular visualization in biology and chemistry education, visual and digital information literacy development for students and faculty, and the role of history and philosophy of science and of science and technology studies in undergraduate and graduate education.
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"Making the Right MUVE"
Posted on November 22, 2007 at 1:28am — 1 Comment
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My old dean used to say it about trying to get faculty to hire colleagues who were "different" from them. She said even when they did, somehow the new guys "drank the koolaid" and became more of the same after just a few years. So true.
I drank the KoolAid listening to them talk about bringing mobile vans IN to the hood, urban agriculture partnering w/community for sustainability on the economic end, and peer to peer education/interns/gardening, etc. but in the end, the parents still have to have TIME to prepare meals...and no amount of 'parent/health ed' etc. is going to solve that one alone when they're working 2 & 3 jobs...and it's easier for them to toss a HFCS/snack pack or fast food offering kids way)
Soooooo you're absolutely right, sometimes we need to 'step back' in order to SEE and reframe...rather than be swayed based on solid arguments telling us what we WANT/wish we could hear! ;-)
Back to the conf...thanks for the ping...
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/MindsonFireOpenEducationt/45823
"Google Launches Project to Share Science Data
Attila Csordas, a researcher in molecular biology and biotechnology at Tulane University, announced on his blog in September that Google was embarking on a project, called Palimpsest, to store huge scientific data sets and make them freely available to the public.
Contacted today, Mr. Csordas declined to elaborate on the project. “Everything I can say at this point publicly about the project was published on my blog,” he stated in an e-mail message. He also provided a link to another blog post he made in September. That one advocated having scientists release the “dark data” from experiments that led to negative results. Mr. Csordas foresees Palimpsest being used for the collection of this type of data; its dissemination can help lead to successful experiments, he writes.
Wired reported on its blog Friday that the scientific data will be available shortly on the Google Research Web site.—-Andrea L. Foster
I might rejoin if I could access it through something like the Wii. I hate sitting on my behind for too long!
As for the handwriting...I'm pretty much in the danah boyd camp as well, for I'm not a stickler for details in media, simply the gesture in itself...interesting that some of our older readers (e.g. comments from grammology.com, etc.) voiced similar flexibility...(encouraging for we longhand-deprivation inept bloggers, heehe)
Anyway...yes, I googled you to find out more based on reading your post...our SL crossover and such in virtual world potential made it a 'fit' to 'befriend' you indeed.
Thanks for accepting. Appreciatively (and selectively) yours, A.
p.s. yes, I'm on several ning sites too, including stop cyberbullying/Andy Carvin's site, etc. and pingback on Beth Kanter's blog and Britt Bravo's too, so our crossover is bound to collide somewhere in the sphere...;-)