Written by Jade Nowland on March 29, 2012.
It was with dismay that I realized that I was racking up hours on a project that I had hoped to keep as a smaller part of my overall schedule. While the project remained on the back burner for over half a year, when the work of researching, writing, and creating slideshows came to the fore, my hours started to climb. Then, too, there were quizzes to be written, transcripts to be created of videotaped interviews, and other planning. When I had to do-up the bill, that really brought it home…that the hours burn rate was going out-of-control. When I let the PI see the hours, she approved their payment. When I offered to have her change out my hours, she declined. Her comment: Continue as usual.
Ramping Back the Time
One of the benefits of not having one project that dominates the work life is that one can engage in a broader range of learning and work when one has a range of multiple main projects. Another is to lighten the pressure on a particular PI, so they are not the only ones funding one’s position.
Further, it’s wise to leave some margin available in a schedule to attend on-campus talks and presentations. It is
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Written by Jade Nowland on March 19, 2012.
In the latest issue of LINK published on Tuesday a video caught my eyes. Not the new (and quite unconventional) admissions video by the University of Rochester although I totally love it and share the love on Twitter last week.
No, what caught my attention in Dave Tylers Link Boxers column this month was another admissions video, an admissions from another world featuring beer, blood, horror and a campus tour.
Havent heard of it yet? Stop a minute and watch it now with more than 2 million views on YouTube, you can say, it has become an overnight classic.
Wow. Really? How did they do that? Were they out their mind and are they now out of their job?
Yep, thats what I thought too the first time I watched it. I had to ask why Central Institute of Technology would boldly (gorely?) go where no other institution has gone before. And, I did.
Caroline Lindsay, Online Strategist for Marketing and Communications at Central Institute of Technology was kind enough to answer my questions to help us all understand the context behind this extreme admissions video.
1) How did you come up with the concept for this video?
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Written by Jade Nowland on March 15, 2012.
Dries Van Noten Fall 12 Show at Hotel de Ville in Paris. Photo Courtesy of Nina Westervelt/MCV Photo.
School of Fashion On-Site Town Hall Meeting
Friday, March 16th
3:00 PM
625 Polk Street Room M09
The School of Fashions Town Hall Meeting will be held this Friday, March 16th at 3:00 PM in Room M09. If you have something you would like to bring to the attention of the faculty, staff, and administration, please come to the meeting!
Written by Jade Nowland on March 5, 2012.
Piano Festival 2012 planning is underway at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, and the deadline is quickly approaching on March. 19. This festival, which will be held on Saturday, April 28, welcomes any precollege piano student to participate in a variety of musical events centered around piano performance, learning and juried competition. Students of all ages (elementary, middle and high school levels) receive unique masterclass instruction from expert pianists to gain musical insight and hone pianistic skills.
Events of the Northwestern Piano Festival 2012 will take place during the morning and early afternoon in the Fine Arts building rooms 200 and 327 and in Herod Hall Auditorium.
Elementary students (grades K-5) may register only for the elementary division masterclass. Middle (grades 6-8; grade 5 possibly only if requested) and high school students (grades 9-12) may register for either or both the competition and masterclass events. Fees for registration, masterclass and competition are as follows: general registration fee is $5; masterclass is $10 for elementary division; $20 for upper divisions; and competition is $15.
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Written by Jade Nowland on February 26, 2012.
There’s plenty of information now out in public spaces about how much is knowable about a person’s online wanderings and searches. There’s a lot to be said about the electronic doppelganger that people have—with people assiduously grooming what they can see, piling on personal information, but being barely able to make changes at the margins for the invisible electronic identities they have cultivated by their actions (often in other spheres of life). We already know that there is no real hiding in the vast streams of information, and if one comes to the attention of a dedicated researcher (particularly in law enforcement), there’s really no hiding at all.
In that light, it would seem counterintuitive to suggest that one has to assume (in general) that one has pseudonimity (persistent anonymity). To assume otherwise is to really lurk in one’s own shadow. To constantly be aware of all the various online tripwires and meta-meta-meta perspectives about one’s online life is to use undue cognitive load in ways that are not particularly helpful.
To not engage online is not a real option. The Internet
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