some thoughts on Gab pushback against research on Gab: https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/gab-pushback-against-research-on-gab/
job post: instructional communication lecturer position at University of Kentucky: https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/instructional-communication-lecturer-position-at-university-of-kentucky/
edtech, mass shootings
linkblog: my thoughts on 'Schools Are Spending Billions on High-Tech Defense for Mass Shootings - The New York Times': https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/2022-06-26-edtechgun-violencemass/
Thanks in large part to @chrisaldrich, I made some helpful updates to how I'm integrating Hypothesis with my blog.
I also managed to improve content aggregation templates; I've been doing a lot of playing with templates recently, which is going to be helpful for teaching that concept in one of my Fall classes.
Summary blog post here:
https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/some-hypothesis-updates/
linkblog: my thoughts on 'Diverse and inclusive stock photos for your next presentation, learning design, etc – George Veletsianos, PhD': https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/2022-06-16-really-appreciated/
new publication: examining pseudonymous academic Twitter accounts: https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/examining-anonymous-academic-twitter-accounts/
Don't know if any of you use Hypothesis for social annotation, but I spent some time this morning building it into my Hugo static site as a de facto commenting system. I love Hypothesis and like Hugo (despite the absence of an in-built comment system), so pretty happy to bring the two together. Wrote up a short (and now commentable!) post here:
It is not unexpected. Even a badass has a limit and Audrey has reached it. I will miss her critical voice, although I know it will still reverberate inside my head every time I get a cold call from some edtech snake oil vendor. https://hackeducation.com/2022/06/15/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish
It was obvious that this was coming but it's still shocking. Audrey Watters is badass and the problem is we didn't listen to her.
https://hackeducation.com/2022/06/15/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish
ed tech, gun violence
linkblog: my thoughts on 'The Silver Bullet of Anti-Shooter Educational Technologies — Civics of Technology': https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/2022-06-14-solid-thinking/
linkblog: my thoughts on 'Software to detect school threats online is costly but mostly ineffective.': https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/2022-06-04-this-kind/
tl;dr — 12 years ago, I asked a professor who barely knew me to write a letter of recommendation, and he did, even though it was probably a huge waste of his time. I don't know if I can keep it up indefinitely, but I'm trying to be as generous to my students as my professors were to me.
why I will (probably?) always agree to write a letter of recommendation for a student: https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/why-i-will-probably-always-agree-to-write-a-letter-of-recommendation/
BA in French Teaching; PhD in Educational Technology; Assistant Professor of ICT at University of Kentucky School of Information Science
I am an interdisciplinary digital methods researcher studying meaning-making practices on online platforms. Most of my work deals with informal learning through social media, but I'm also dabbling in online Mormonism, the online far right, and various combinations of the three.
I post on other topics from other accounts.