"Sidney Halleck Says. . ."
Sometimes I think about what I want and it finds me.
I was at work quite late Friday night (extended practice break partially to blame, so whatever) and annoyed by a rather frustrating conversation with my boss, who has come to be very unsupportive of my teaching career (either at her organization or anywhere else, for that matter.)
I complained about the whole affair to a relative who pragmatically suggested I search for other employment. While for various reasons I do not intend to quit my primary gig, I did encounter a truly serendipitous opportunity not 20 minutes later -- on which I do intend to act, and quickly.
When opportunity knocks this loudly, who am I to dally?
In related educational matters, I'd like to know from my fellow teachers and info-geeks your thoughts on content aggregators such as wikipedia. And not to treat this matter in any superficial way, what gives me pause is not the success of the thing but its reification of the idea that collectivism and a sort of darwinian iteration is of more value than rigorous, critical scholarship or actual expertise.
I know at least 2 people reading this have worked on wikis back in the day. Is this what god intended from them?
There's well-covered ground in all directions of this question, so I'll leave it here for the moment. I recently read a comment by Larry Sanger on the subject which quickly distills the question of epistemic collectivism from both the technology itself and its purpose. That's fine as far as it goes. But speaking on a large scale, can this kind of "strong collaboration" which precludes both authorship and ownership ever really be separated from a kind of Marxist mentality?
After all the best scholarship has been assimilated, who will be put against the wall when the revolution comes?
"I am Rubik of Borg. . .and no one remembers that this cube was MY IDEA."
I was at work quite late Friday night (extended practice break partially to blame, so whatever) and annoyed by a rather frustrating conversation with my boss, who has come to be very unsupportive of my teaching career (either at her organization or anywhere else, for that matter.)
I complained about the whole affair to a relative who pragmatically suggested I search for other employment. While for various reasons I do not intend to quit my primary gig, I did encounter a truly serendipitous opportunity not 20 minutes later -- on which I do intend to act, and quickly.
When opportunity knocks this loudly, who am I to dally?
In related educational matters, I'd like to know from my fellow teachers and info-geeks your thoughts on content aggregators such as wikipedia. And not to treat this matter in any superficial way, what gives me pause is not the success of the thing but its reification of the idea that collectivism and a sort of darwinian iteration is of more value than rigorous, critical scholarship or actual expertise.
I know at least 2 people reading this have worked on wikis back in the day. Is this what god intended from them?
There's well-covered ground in all directions of this question, so I'll leave it here for the moment. I recently read a comment by Larry Sanger on the subject which quickly distills the question of epistemic collectivism from both the technology itself and its purpose. That's fine as far as it goes. But speaking on a large scale, can this kind of "strong collaboration" which precludes both authorship and ownership ever really be separated from a kind of Marxist mentality?
After all the best scholarship has been assimilated, who will be put against the wall when the revolution comes?
"I am Rubik of Borg. . .and no one remembers that this cube was MY IDEA."