Back-to-School Bingo: Higher Ed Media Coverage!

Want to play? Here’s a Higher Ed Media Coverage Bingo!—downloadable PDF.

Social Media: Twitter Cheat Sheet [July 2013]

This is a short-ish guide to Twitter that I created for a project and then adapted for a workshop group.

Twitter Tips – Basics

Workshop: What the Tweet? Social Media for Grad Students [November 29, 2011]

Speculative Diction: More than a storm in a teacup – the debate on academic blogging

This was a follow-up post that I wrote (published on October 21, 2011) after a briefer article of mine on academic blogging was published in University Affairs. I wanted to get into some more of the reasons why blogging is still considered a lesser form of communication, and therefore isn’t something that usually contributes to building an academic career.

University Affairs: Should You Enter the Academic Blogosphere? [October 11, 2011]

This article appeared in both the print and online versions of University Affairs; it addresses the pros and cons of engaging in blogging, for academics. 

The article was re-published on the LSE Impact Blog site on November 30, 2011. I also wrote a follow-up blog post dealing with some of the issues I couldn’t include in the original post (due to lack of space).

Conference Presentation: Social Media – Implications for the University [May 3 2013]

I presented at this conference last Friday with Dr. Grace Pollock, Alexandra Epp, and Danielle Martak. Our presentation was titled, “The Public Intellectuals Project at McMaster University: A Case Study in Social Media Use”. Below is the preliminary version of the Prezi, which I hope to update later with a more complete version of the talk and additional resources relating to the PIP.

Political Campaigns: Ted McMeekin Accomplishments Map [September, 2011]

Direct link: http://goo.gl/maps/xCYBt

Conference Presentation: Minding the Gaps – PhD Students and Social Media [April 27 2013]

For HASTAC I participated by helping to create a panel with Bonnie Stewart, sava saheli singh, and Trent M. Kays. The panel was titled “Cohorts without borders: New doctoral subjects”.

I have the basic outline of my talk in a set of PowerPoint slides (I’ll possibly turn it into a better version on Prezi later on): Minding the Gaps: PhD Students & Social Media.

Storify: HASTAC 2013, Day 1 [April 25, 2013]

Here is the compilation of tweets from the first day of the HASTAC conference this week, in Storify form: Day 1.

The conference began with an evening plenary from Cathy Davidson, which sparked an interesting debate in the Twitter “backchannel”.

Speculative Diction: Tech Round-Up [May 8 2011]

In the past, I’ve done several blog posts that covered tech tools I use in my everyday research and writing process. This post addresses Diigo, Scrivener, Scribd, Zotero, Dipity, and Moo.com.