Archive for March 22, 2011

Why Agnes Scott Needs the Digital Design Fellowship.

I’m a big fan of Worst Professor Ever’s blog, and if you’re at all involved with higher education (on a student, staff, faculty or administrative level), you should be too. She recently attended South by Southwest (aka, SXSW) in Austin, Texas, a huge festival for creative types looking to be discovered in a variety of fields (namely, music, film and interactive tech), specifically to volunteer for SXSW Interactive (or SXSW IA, if you’re into acronyms), a tech segment of the festival that you can read about by following the link. More to the point, Worst Professor Ever has published a couple of posts addressing edutech, and the digital humanities, that I think are super important right now. I’ll let you do some independent reading with links to the posts in question, respectively, and appropriately, titled “SXSW On A Stick (Or: So You Want Your Field to be Taken Seriously?)” and “Bummer Thoughts on the Digital Humanities” — once you’re done with that, come back to this Crafting the Digital Design Fellowship post. Consider it your spring reading assignment; it’s going to be food for thought for what I have to say next. And you might want to get comfortable, because I’ve got a lot to say.

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