A belated congrats to all of the EECS182/SI182 students on finishing the semester. For those not familiar with the course, SI182 is an intro to programming course in the informatics program at UM. Paul Resnick and I taught it this past semester, and arranged the course around pulling data from public feeds, processing this data, [...]
Tagged class, course, eecs182, Google App Engine, programming, python, si, si182, umichLibby Hemphill and I are hosting a roundtable discussion at the 2008 iConference, hosted by UCLA, at the end of February. Professional students, whether undergraduates or masters’ students, represent a significant portion of the iSchool community. How do iSchools effectively educate those students while continuing to develop successful research programs? This roundtable discussion will focus [...]
Tagged conference, education, highered, iconference, ischools, practice, researchFor one of our Networked Cities projects, we were asked to explore urban markup. While looking at existing projects, my teammate David Hutchful and I got the feeling that tagging spaces is a pretty crowded space. Tagging or otherwise marking people with the intent of learning more about them or feeling more connected to them [...]
Tagged design, identity, place, siI’ve had a busy couple of months. Among the highlights: My team’s submission for the CHI student design competition was accepted. Like a lot of good news, this begets more work, but it’s fun and I’m really looking forward to the conference. I’ve been accepted to the PhD program at SI. I’m pretty excited; among [...]
Tagged chi, si, transitThe i-Conference was two weeks ago (time seems to be going very quickly now). It was a really good experience, and I feel that I left with a much better understanding of the history of information schools and some of the challenges they (we?) face. Much of the conference was navel gazing through the lenses [...]
Tagged education, ischools, research, siThe School of Information is the first place I’ve been in a number of years that doesn’t have a community norm of using a calendaring system. From what I gather, the school’s administrators use MeetingMaker, faculty use nothing, and students use whatever they have with Google Calendar being the most common. Others in the University [...]
Tagged calendar, cscw, meetings, si