Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Nov 30, 2009, 06:14 PM

I was very excited today to receive the email from Rosemary Feal, Executive Director of MLA, announcing the unveiling of the Evaluation Wiki, an online Wiki for "The Evaluation of Digital Work."  It is part of the MLA's Committee on Information Technology, and allows any teacher or scholar to contribute to it, offering content on developing, gathering, and sharing material about the evaluation of digital work for hiring, tenure, promotion, and other rewards of our profession.  HASTAC has been writing about this for a long time but never came up with an idea this brilliant, to make it a wiki.   We're honored to be mentioned as part of this project and we here invite all HASTAC members to contribute.  

Submitted by gerrycanavan on Sep 11, 2009, 01:48 PM

"I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook, because in the YouTube age whatever you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in your life." -Barack Obama, fifteen years too late for me

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 26, 2009, 05:49 AM

INSIDE HIGHER ED's Scott Jaschik has written an excellent summary of the HASTAC/MLA Taskforce on Tenure in a Digital Era being spearheaded by HASTAC SC member Tim Murray amd HASTAC new member (and new leader--it's the HASTAC way!) Laura Mandell of Miami of Ohio. HASTAC is teaming up with MLA to come up with constructive guidelines for how to evaluate digital scholarship. Here's the url for this great piece, and hats off to Tim and Laura for both making this happen and getting publicity. Spreading the word is half the battle---so pass it on! http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/26/digital

 

We will be building on a wiki already in progress and already full of useful information, documents, stories, suggestions, guidelines. You can find that here: http://www.philosophi.ca/pmwiki.php/Main/MLADigitalWork

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 16, 2009, 04:25 PM

This posting from Japan comes somewhere in the middle of a night (jetlag rules!) in Osaka, before moving to Tokyo where I will be conducting several interviews for The Rewired Brain:  The Deep Structure of Thinking for the Information Age, the book I'm finishing on cognition and digitality and that Viking Press will publish in either late 2010 or early 2011. 

 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 06, 2008, 08:44 AM

This morning I received a very interesting email from Mills Kelly (http://edwired.org/) of George Mason University asking if I would be willing to be interviewed for a piece on digital scholarship. I'm delighted Mills is doing this and will be happy to talk. But I'm not sure everyone will be happy with my answers.

 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Apr 07, 2007, 12:04 PM
One of Julie Klein's students asked me to fill out a survey about blogging as part of her class project on "Integration" for the Wayne State University In|Formation Year contribution. Here's what I wrote in answer to her question on blogging and tenure and promotion.