May arrives every year–and every year it is a surprise. While I seem to spend every April wondering if it really is the cruelest month, May (on the semester system) is an opportunity to reflect on the past year and to dream for the future.
May, as a runner friend of mine would say, is when I need to remind myself to “finish strong”. I want to spend the last of my energy in the final push of the academic year. I have just one more week to make up for all the mistakes or missed opportunities of the year. How I could have done better, arrived in May with bigger accomplishments, happier students, and more publications?
So, a stock-taking. This year (2014/2015) I:
- Gave a paper, with Anne Cong-Huyen, U Toronto Conference on Digital Pedagogy in August 2014.
- In fall, regularly participated in FemTechNet planning and committee meetings.
- Participated in four MOOCs (that I can remember) on open learning, connected learning, Python, etc.
- Attended AACU in January 2015 with Doreen O’Connor-Gomez.
- Gave a paper, with Pete Rorabaugh, at ELI, Educause annual meeting in February 2015.
- Gave two papers, with Pete Rorabaugh, Maha Bali, Janine De Blaise, Christina Hendricks, and JR Dingwall at OLC annual meeting in April 2015.
- Gave a paper at HASTAC in May 2015 for a panel on digital liberal arts.
- Attend DHSI in June 2015.
- Taught classes in both the Whittier Scholars program (two new preps) and the English Department.
- Worked with colleagues to build Whittier Digital Liberal Arts Center.
- Served as interim Associate Director for the Whittier Scholars program.
- Served on faculty committees:
DigLibArts Steering Committee (chair)
EPC (spring)
Whittier Scholars Council
VPSS/DoS Hiring Committee (fall) - Submitted a manuscript for an essay on trauma and nationalism in Kipling (still in review).
- Submitted an essay proposal for a paper on Romantic Pedagogies, which was accepted.
