Highlights in no particular order:

1. Barbecue lunch Friday

2. Locke Carter's schema of frontier scholarship modes

3. Rick Branscomb's characterization of the gaps between outr students and ourselves in terms of cognitive styles

4. Learning that the Sophie beta comes out in a month

5. Matt Barton's talk on wikis

5a. Virginia Kuhn on "suspicion of non-alphabetic literacy"

6. Going to Rudy's barbecue with colleagues--more BBQ

7. Hallway conversations

8. Coming changes in Kairos

9. Dean Rehberger and Dan Anderson on sound recording and podcasting (workshops). Tons of links and stuff from both workshops.

Some things I am mulling over as a result of the conference so far. These are not particularly new, just worth thinking about:

a. what about the generational disjoint between "digital natives" and those of us who a) gained literacy abilities in a pre-digital time ( and who teach these natives?)

b. Digital does not mean electronic. (from Rob Dornsife)

c. Wikis impel the relinquishment of absolute control. (from Matt Barton)

d. The "gold standard" of traditional peer review needs revision and adaptation in order for legitimate academic work in blogs, wikis, etc., to "count." (from Glenn Blalock)

e. We need to pay morfe attention to the materiality of the hardware we use. We focus more on software; hardware needs looking at, too. (from Pete England)

f. We need to pay more attention to the ultimate rationales we use to justify multimediation. We need to listen to the people who wonder what we're doing before we answer them.

g. Our ways of learning "newmediation" may likely not be those of our students.

h. We need to provide value-added (sorry for the corporate term) content to our students' natively acquired newmediation. What that is is a really good question.

more later.

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