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Dear Data: Challenging Data One Post at a Time
CP’s Note: This story about my collaboration with the course, Race, Racism, and Power originally appears in my department’s ‘Teaching with LITS’ nook on the College’s website. I’ve edited it slightly to fit the style of this site. Caro Pinto worked with the course Race, Racism, and Power taught by Assistant Professor Vanessa Rosa of…
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New Haven Memories Brought to You by Testing WordPress Plugins
I’m testing WordPress plugins that manage media files and through the course of my testing, I came across a cache of photographs from two websites ago (thanks, Tumblr import!) that narrate part of my life in New Haven. They are primarily outtakes from two years working at Yale. Looking through the photos is a nice…
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Dear Data: THE EXHIBIT!
I’m embedded in course called Race, Racism, and Power with Vanessa Rosa that includes an assignment known as ‘Dear Data.’ In ‘Dear Data,’ students generate data visualizations of their readings several times throughout the semester. They use numbers, drawings, dotted lines, and other forms of visual communication to frame their posts. This assignment is modeled…
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The Bank Stops Here or Revising my Commodities Session in Environmental Studies 100
As the librarian for Environmental Studies, I have the pleasure of teaching a VERY exciting research session for Environmental Studies 100. Students enrolled in this course must research and write a short paper outlining the lifecycle of a commodity. Students choose a range of commodities from beef to iPhones. This is a challenging assignment as…
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Zotero 5.0 is Here: Giving ‘My Publications’ a Spin