Ryan P. Randall @foureyedsoul@scholar.social

Does anyone know of a website like XKCD's "Simple Writer" (https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/)
—but in French?

I'm helping professors make an Open Education Resource textbook with readings that focus on the most commonly-used words in French. They'd like a simple tool to check the readings against.

(Yes, I've already suggested making a custom dictionary in a word processor, but they'd like to know if a tool like this already exists.) #oer #oa

I'm making a "How to Online Student 101" guide for my community college's students—both because it can be helpful and because I think we in the library will do a more empathetic version than our non-library colleagues who initially said it should happen.

We've got a very distinct digital divide here in Idaho, serving some very rural areas as well as the state's biggest cities.

Anyone have favorite #OER guides or top other suggestions?

New in this version:

* infophage

Deprecated:

* consumer of information

🎤I go: hey, just give me a measure, please
all I want is a measure
And they couldn't give it to me!

OPERATIONALIZED!!

Two awesome-sounding funded positions for Ph.D. candidates in Norway to study contemporary non-Anglophone science fictions, each apparently fully-funded for 3 years.

Latin American futurisms: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/183138/doctoral-research-fellowship-on-contemporary-latin-american-futurisms-and-science-fiction

Chinese futurisms: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/183134/doctoral-research-fellowship-on-contemporary-chinese-futurisms-and-chinese-science-fiction

The CoFutures project overall sounds great, too! https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/projects/cofutures/about-the-project/index.html

I'm fortunate that I only work in this open office (basically a cubicle/ carrel farm) about once a week. It's usually supremely distracting, even when I have earbuds in & music on, ie shields up.

But today, one of my colleagues in here is verbalizing her thoughts just barely above a whisper, and it's incredibly, surprisingly charming.

She's at least a generation older than me & a Comp/Rhet instructor. I often wonder if folks like this are part of our large undiagnosed ADHD squad.

Finally put together an #LISMentalHealth post this year. It's a little messy, so I'll likely refine it over the next few days.

It blends things I've seen &learned from the #NeuroDiverseSquad, being #ADHD, library folks, my parents, & etc.

Plus: references to "Howl".

http://ryanpatrickrandall.com/while-you-are-not-safe-i-am-not-safe/

‪Pretty sure there's a lot of folks in the Fediverse who teach—particularly library folks—who'll enjoy this take on how instructional design can be improved by thinking like a dungeon master.‬

‪"Benevolent subversions" is a phrase that'll stick in my mind, too.‬

‪https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53553/five-best-practices-teachers-can-learn-from-dungeon-masters‬

Can anyone link to a—preferably open access / open web / OER—source with a good definition of "positionality"?

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on "Feminist Perspectives on the Body" ( https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-body/#Inte ) is the closest I've found thus far.

I'm hoping to find something closer to 3 sentences long. Social sciences, ethnic studies, critical race theory would be closer to the target audience's mindset than philosophy.

If you're tenure-track, contingent, or tenured faculty, please consider signing this petition in support of UC Santa Cruz grad students striking for decent housing and livable wages.

They are now threatened by Janet Napolitano with being fired if they don't stop their strike by Feb 21st. #cola4all #UCSCstrike

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdG2HqiSsC2XFFaT26e0YfGkRNo0LbIxQAiCxHoG12IlErlSw/viewform

Over on the birdsite, Dr. Robin James reiterates: "All claims for the non ideological or apolitical character of X are political and ideological claims." https://twitter.com/doctaj/status/1228349332807614465

Considering all the asinine approaches to "neutrality" in libraries lately, I had to make this image to help reinforce the point.

#libraryNeutrality #critLib #timeToTalkAboutIF

So I ended up making good progress on that academic website theme for GitHub Pages.

The goal is for it to be editable entirely within the browser interface, for folks who don't want to have to install Jekyll or other techie stuff.

If you want to try it out, here's an early version of it: https://github.com/ryan-p-randall/distance-learning