Category: projects
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Whoohoo, the Empire Conference has started
I am glad to have had this experience, but I am so glad that in two days, it will be over! Tonight we held the opening reception, for which we slightly overestimated food and drink, but the reverse would have been worse by far. So we have nice collection of papers and two really kick-ass…
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Catching up a bit
So, last term got completely crazy toward the end. In addition to the stuff I usually might have to do–teach, direct the comp. program, do a little research and writing–I also have been trying to write some grant proposals, organize a conference, and chair a search committee. Oh yeah, and I had to do a…
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I spend all my time on scheduling…
Some of the people I’ve started to know on Facebook are Hans Bernhard and Lizvlx, otherwise known as Ubermorgen. We’ve talked about all kinds of things, from our kids, to the joys of Ikea, to what motivates our work. And we spend a lot of time sending each other drinks and throwing sheep and all…
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Finally news on my blogging chapter, and identity projects more genrally
Quick burst of good news: finally I’ve heard from the editor of International Blogging; it’s coming out from Peter Lang in 2008 and my chapter will be the conclusion. 🙂 A draft of the intro is here. It’s weird; I wrote this so long ago and now that it’s appearing, my work has moved on…
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And, we’re off!
The semester has started and students are starting to find their way to the Moodle site, where so far, they are managing to register and upload pictures of themselves, set up their profiles , etc. So that’s a relief. Now I just hope my grad students do as well. Meanwhile, we are scrambling through two…
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Tick Tick Tick
Every now and then I enter some kind of mental phase when my brain feels overclocked. My thoughts speed up and run in parallel processes. Right now I am thinking about three different grant proposals; my undergrad and grad classes which start in two weeks; the orientation for new TAs next week; the 10 emails…
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The Big Picture
Early on I introduced this blog and why I was writing it, but didn’t say much about the overall plan of which my trip to the Netherlands was part. Here’s a brief summary: last fall I started organizing faculty that were interested in New/digital media to talk about possible projects and to write grants. We…
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Letters of intent (LOI)
Some granting agencies encourage (or require) applicants to submit a letter of intent before applying so the agency can decide on reviewers more easily. So, OK, coming up with a 2-page letter with one inch margins, 12-point font in an NSF approved typeface is slightly tiresome, but I write so many conference abstracts, it wasn’t…