empathy education

my mom was on kplu this week talking about empathy education in relation to the VA Tech shootings: listen here

new colors!

just for fun.



and...this

Net Native in the P-I

Today's Net Native addresses an issue that we seem to dance around quite a bit in the newspaper industry--the fact that we are quickly moving into a paperless future...I have been reading and thinking about this quite a bit since it relates both to my day-to-day work and my interest in Digital Literacies. The Atlantic Monthly also ran a story about this last December. This change is exciting for those of us who don't like newsprint on our fingers and more recycling to deal with in a small one-bedroom apartment...less so for the traditionalists who seem to think there is something inherently better about reading the daily news in paper form than online. Online news is cheaper, more current, and more convenient than the paper form...newsrooms will adapt to the change and those that don't will die off. This is an exciting time to work in this otherwise stogy industry, in my opinion.

switching gears

Hi. Elizabeth here again.

Now that my digital literacies class is over, I am trying to decide what to do with this blog. Because it is titled "New Literacy Studies" I feel it would be wrong to change the topic to something I spend my day thinking more about like, say, doilies or cats. So I will stick to education. One can't exactly do a PhD in doilies, now, can one? Though if any discipline could include a study on doilies it may actually be New Literacy Studies. But I digress...my point was that I may end up writing more broadly about issues of education that I encounter in my classes...this quarter I am taking a history of educational philosophy course that will probably provide some good food for thought.

Another goal of mine is to participate in posting more on other education-related blogs. What is the point in putting this online if no one is really reading it? And it seems the best way to make friends online is to be a friend. Speaking of friends, my good friend Elizabeth Stohr just invited me to be on facebook. Against my better judgment, I joined. Now I am completely obsessed with the fact that I feel I am too old to have a profile and someone is going to call me out on that any day...I feel like such a 31-year-old poser.

In other news, I am picking up my papers from last quarter today. Once I read and revise them, I *may* post them here for feedback. It depends on how awful I realize they really are upon reading them weeks later with more sleep the night before.

I may also turn my attention toward figuring out exactly why I am in school and what I am here to study. It turns out that no one else is going to figure that out for me--damnit.

More soon.
ecd.

PS--This photo doesn't have doilies in it, but one gets the feeling that they are not far out of the picture...