{"id":3253,"date":"2013-01-05T17:43:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T00:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:53:35","slug":"where-ive-been-online-jan-5-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/01\/05\/where-ive-been-online-jan-5-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I&#8217;ve Been Online (Jan 5 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/adjunct.chronicle.com\/about\/\">About This Project | Adjunct Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">About This Project<\/p>\n<p>Two-thirds of the faculty standing in front of college classrooms each day are off the tenure track. But getting information about the salaries of this army of adjuncts and the campus working conditions for them has proven nearly impossible. This site represents the evolution of a simple spreadsheet created in 2012 by Joshua Boldt, a composition instructor in Athens, Ga., to track salary information of adjunct professors around the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/project\">project<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/adjunct\">adjunct<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/teaching\">teaching<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2013\/01\/study-gamers-have-friends-healthy-relationships\/266735\/\">Study: Gamers Have Friends, Healthy Relationships &#8211; Lindsay Abrams &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">The players, most of whom turned out to be male college students, reported spending over $200 per year on video games, and dedicating an average of 20.5 hours per week to playing them. But how much time and money was spent, found the researchers, was in no way related to the gamers&#8217; social success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/study\">study<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/gamers\">gamers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/friends\">friends<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/relationships\">relationships<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2012\/12\/30\/magazine\/the-lives-they-lived-2012.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20121230\">The Lives They Lived &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">This issue is meant to be a celebration of life, not an expression of grief. But since the tragedy<br \/>\nin Newtown, Conn., grief has been unavoidable. Our wish for those who knew and loved the 20 children<br \/>\nand 6 adults killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School is that they are held up by those around them<br \/>\nuntil the day comes when they might feel something other than terrible loss. And our wish<br \/>\nfor the rest of us is that we all might help turn despair into hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/nytimes\">nytimes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-3253'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3253);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3253);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(3253);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>About This Project | Adjunct Project About This Project Two-thirds of the faculty standing in front of college classrooms each day are off the tenure track. But getting information about the salaries of this army of adjuncts and the campus &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/01\/05\/where-ive-been-online-jan-5-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-games","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-Qt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2604,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/08\/16\/how-the-american-university-was-killed-in-five-easy-steps-the-homeless-adjunct\/","url_meta":{"origin":3253,"position":0},"title":"How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps | The Homeless Adjunct","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps | The Homeless Adjunct. Like the first commenter says, a must read. Here's the spoiler: defund public higher education. deprofessionalize and impoverish the professors\u00a0(and continue to create a surplus of underemployed and unemployed Ph.D.s) move in a managerial\/administrative class who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3175,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/11\/16\/the-gamification-of-everything\/","url_meta":{"origin":3253,"position":1},"title":"The Gamification of Everything","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"November 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I really hate that term. My fear is that it will stick though. Don't get me wrong - there are some very useful things that are being called gamification. Many of them aren't new though. There's also a lot of crap that's being labelled as gamification. I'm worried that most\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Games&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Games","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/games\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7177,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/12\/16\/worth-sharing-students-arent-learning-enough-a-brewing-crisis-in-higher-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":3253,"position":2},"title":"Worth Sharing: Students aren&#8217;t learning enough &#8211; a brewing crisis in higher education","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"December 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Too many graduates are not prepared to think critically and creatively, speak and write cogently, solve problems, comprehend complex issues, accept accountability, take the perspective of others, or meet employer expectations. What are YOU doing in your classes to address that? Indeed, higher education globally continues to follow a relatively\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3852,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/04\/12\/six-things-that-will-demoralise-staff-smh-com-au\/","url_meta":{"origin":3253,"position":3},"title":"Six things that will demoralise staff | smh.com.au","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"April 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Six things that will demoralise staff | smh.com.au. Boy, this sure hits home. These are all reasons I left the University of Calgary. It's also why I am happy to teach courses at Mount Royal University - they do very little of this, which makes for an entirely different working\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7038,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/09\/07\/worth-sharing-mieke-bal-lets-abolish-the-peer-review-system-media-theory\/","url_meta":{"origin":3253,"position":4},"title":"Worth Sharing: Mieke Bal: Let\u2019s Abolish the Peer-Review System \u2013 Media Theory","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"September 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"EXCELLENT article. I have experienced many of these issues myself. As an adjunct and sessional instructor, I am treated as \"less than\" by a great many in the academy - not based on my work, but rather based almost solely on my social \"caste\". Rules rule, overruling people.In this short\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3688,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/09\/02\/video-games-becoming-required-coursework-in-schools-technology-science-cbc-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":3253,"position":5},"title":"Video games becoming required coursework in schools &#8211; Technology &#038; Science &#8211; CBC News","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"September 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Video games becoming required coursework in schools - Technology & Science - CBC News. Unfortunately, they got my institution wrong. I've got a request in to fix it, but I've had no response yet. Below is an edited excerpt (with the correct institution named). 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