Dr. StrangeScholar: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Chaos
From CTLpedia
- Shelley Rodrigo
- 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 6, 2006
- LB 145 in the Elsner Library at MCC
Shelley image In the presentation I'll be using Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove to provide a narrative framework to discuss changing scholarly requirements and processes in an interactive manner. We'll construct our own War Room to discuss how the conflicting pressures of scholarly research, teaching and service might be better balanced with different interactive technologies. We'll cover such topics as:
- preserving precious peer reviewed print journals,
- Scholarly Survival Kit (Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Silicon Valley with all those interactive technologies); and
- The Doomsday Machine—Blogging and RSS technologies (Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?--It was to be announced at MCC in December. As you know, Rodrigo loves surprises).
Participants will work in groups to brainstorm further issues about contemporary scholarship to add to the list and categories I will be presenting (we will further develop this portion of the presentation in a wiki). Throughout the presentation I will share examples based on my own reading, research, and experiences, claiming that blogs and RSS technologies are the Scholarly "Doomsday Machine" and that we must learn to expand the traditional paradigm of "preserving precious peer reviewed print journals".
Shelley Rodrigo earned her Bachelor's in English Literature from the University of California at Riverside. She has earned two Masters degrees, one in Humanities (film) and another in English, from Arizona State University and is currently completing her PhD in English (Rhetoric & Composition) from ASU as well. Shelley has been a full-time faculty member in Mesa Community College's English, Humanities and Journalism department since 2002. She participated in the Maricopa Institute for Learning fellowship in 2005-6, and has been very active in various technological initiatives at both MCC and in the district as a whole. Her scholarly interests all collect under the general umbrella of the intersections between humanity and technologies—writing, teaching, professional development and technology, cyborg studies, and usability studies to name a few. She is currently co-authoring both an edited collection about the connections between usability and rhetorical studies as well as a textbook on research and writing. Her work has appeared in Computers and Composition, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Journal of Advancing Technology, Flow¸ as well as various edited collections.
