lasted plan for seminar paper...

So I need to relate my topic to the new university. Here goes: Lanham went off the handle, crazy about the possibilities without the university. Moran probably started it all, not with the term digital divide, but the thought. Vie noticed that young college students had abilities with myspace and Facebook but were not too interested in composition. So why not relate the two? For Vie the problem of the DD was not so much access, as with Moran, but technological literacy and tech. awareness.

I am not sure we as comp teachers can make myspace into an academic activity. We can make users more informed about gender/race/politics etc. Besides for me at CC, access is still a huge issue with only 36% of CC students nationally are connected to the Internet at home.

I have my own survey and interviews: closer to 80% of my students have access.

One conclusion of Vie is that teachers need help with technology if comp is going to make progress in the digital world. I agree that teachers need to be trained but I also think that comp is not going very high tech soon. After all, the courses I teach are similar to the course I took in 1982. Using tech means that we assume the college has the tech and the space and that is a huge assumption.

Adjunct Faculty Rep

I am not sure if it is good news or bad, but I have been elected adjunct faculty rep. I myself refused to vote: first I refuse to vote for myself, and second I looked at the list of three candidates and frankly did not like any of them. I always wonder how many people vote in these elections anyway.

So for me who honestly does not know too much about faculty senate, this experience should be fun: Thursday afternoon I think. More later with the fallout.