We live in a society where many simple and complex tasks are initiated in or take place in a networked environment. It has been established that people need to posses information literacy and digital literacy skills if they want be able to be active members of the community.  Among other things, the United States is known [...]

I’m a bit late proposing topics, but here are a few nebulous thoughts: * Open source possibilities in academia – alternative publishing and public scholarship meet the necessities of the tenure track * Digital humanities and accessibility: there’s already a proposal for accessibility and graduate education, but I’d like to talk about how we incorporate [...]

I am interested in engaging a roundtable with folks who are interested not only in using technology to enhance their pedagogical and personal computing skills, but also those who might see it as a viable topic to conduct research/ write something on. For example, I am at the moment fairly interested in the Occupy movement [...]

And very open-ended ones, at that. I’d be really interested in a session, or track, on social justice/tech pedagogy. This might encompass teaching students about using technology; teaching them about studying and analyzing different technologies in terms of the issues they raise for public/private freedoms, etc.; and the challenges and opportunities of using the net [...]

Saturday, November 12th at the University of Washington Bothell