Monthly Archives: October 2013

A Teachable Moment? Cybersex, File Management & Slut Shaming

I suspect that a human being in Iowa City, IA is suffering from shock induced by embarrassment that could reasonably be described as mortified, and as time goes on will suffer from depression and PTSD.  I hope I am mistaken. … Continue reading

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Boys Club. Again. Damnit!

I have organized 11 professional gatherings for Conflict Consortium (seven Triple C Dinners, two data Workshops, and two Virtual Workshops),  and four of them have ended up being “boys clubs”: events in which those present were almost exclusively male. At one … Continue reading

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How to Make my Gated Work Freely Avaialable: Open Access Week at FSU

Every now and then my university does something unexpected that makes me happy.  Information about such almost never arrives via email, but hey, every now and then… It turns out that something called DigiNole Commons exists and it is a publicly accessible … Continue reading

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Repetition in Advising: 1st Year Students

One thing that often strikes me is the extent to which the advice, counsel, what have you that I give is generic, and thus something that I want to deliver via a FAQ or a digital recording, or something.  I … Continue reading

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