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The three-day conference in the Adirondacks ended yesterday; in the
\nafternoon, several of us caravanned back to campus in the rides provided by the
\nUniversity. More background: The event convenes each year in the spring.
\nPut on by the Graduate School staff whose work involves professional development
\nfor graduate students, the conference draws together PhD students and faculty
\nfrom a variety of disciplines (journalism, anthropology, geography, and so on)
\nand institutions (SU, Onondaga CC, and several SUNY schools). Attendees
\npop in and out throughout the three days, but altogether there were 40-50 people
\npresent on any given day. Our program sent two faculty members and three
\nstudents, all of us involved with the Future Professoriate Program at SU. The
\nprogram, as I noted the other day, was a mix of general sessions and concurrent
\nsessions. On the final day (yesterday), there were a few roundtables, but
\nwith just 30-45 minutes, they felt too brief to get into much substantive
\ndiscussion. Still, the conversations across disciplines linger as the most
\ncompelling aspect of the conference. It’s unusual to locate avenues for
\ncross-disciplinary contact, much less opportunities for the convergence of
\nmultiple disciplinary vantages rather than the perspectival 1:1 of rhet\/comp and
\ngeography, let’s say, or rhet\/comp and IST. This oversimplifies, of course, glossing that
\nany individual might be a nomadic collocation–a knot of multiple
\ninfluences–unto themselves. But I’m getting at primary affiliations and
\nrecognized roles: the label on a name tag, for instance.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Here are the sessions I attended (with session type in parentheses):<\/p>\n

Wed.
\nInfluencing Classroom Culture (general)
\nIntegrating Research into Teaching (concurrent)
\nInsights on Publishing (concurrent)
\nElectronic Portfolios and Portfolio Critique (general)<\/p>\n

Thu.
\nLearning from Experiences – The ‘Un-Vita’ (general)
\nUsing Technology to Extend the Classroom (concurrent)
\nTenure, Unionization and other Facets of Faculty Life at Different Institutions
\n(concurrent)
\nAcademic Job Interviewing Simulations (general)<\/p>\n

Fri.
\nBeyond the Lecture: Bringing the Classroom Alive (general)
\nExperiential Learning (concurrent)
\nSetting and Fulfilling your Independent Research Agenda (roundtable)
\nBuilding Connections–Professional Networking (roundtable)<\/p>\n

The first night’s session on electronic portfolios was
\nsurprising in part, at least, because I was the only one in the room with an
\nelectronic portfolio of sorts, even if "portfolio" never really comes to mind
\nexplicitly when I think about the assorted self-representations I’m assembling
\nhere<\/a>. The session was
\nsplit between a general overview of professional portfolios and breakouts where
\nsix of us introduced our stuff and talked through the ideas driving whatever
\nwe’d brought. But the lead-up discussion kept breaking down, split along
\nan event-modeled framing of portfolios as a particular response to a particular
\nexigency (answering a committee’s request, for example, related to a job app or
\nT&P) and, on the other hand, portfolios as a habit<\/i> of collecting and
\npresenting that which is in progress throughout a doctoral program of study.
\nI sensed that the breakouts, perhaps because they were more focused on
\ntangible portfolios, were more satisfying for everyone. As I talked, I
\ntried to get at the idea of fashioning a digital ethos and being<\/i> in the
\nnetwork underscored by habits of writing activity.<\/p>\n

The session on "Using Technology to Extend the Classroom" involved an
\noverview of the many technology-oriented expectations imposed on the faculty at
\nOnondaga Community College. Problems: so many sites! so many passwords! poor
\ndesign! I suppose I’m being flippant, but what started out reasonably strong
\nended with examples of eBay bids (our professional technologies blend with
\nour personal technologies!) and finally–the centerpiece of the really interesting
\nconversation that capped the talk–an ameil from a desparate student that
\nincluded, Gasp!<\/i>, typos, no capitalization and informal address.
\nInteresting about the Q&A and related discussion was that it primed us into us to
\ncross-talk about writing<\/i> in a roundabout sort of way without those of us
\nfrom the writing program needing to defend or assert any particular view.
\nResponses ranged from "danged unconscientious students!" to "big deal."<\/p>\n

I suppose I’ll sound like I’m complaining if I write that I left the
\nprofessional networking session wishing for something slightly different.
\nIt’s not that the advice was bad. That’s not it at all. It’s just
\nthat "Building Connections" fell neatly into the business-modeled domain of
\nshaking hands and being a good muckety-muck (flip again?). My bias against the
\n"market yourself" gloss grows out of experiences here in the blogstream, coming
\nto know others and in turn to be known by interactions that blur the
\nfaux-division between professional networks and social networks. How can
\nthe logics of social networks and social networking apps overhaul the
\nefforted<\/i> versions of professional networking (as pandering)? Maybe it can’t.
\nBut I really like the question, and even though change along this front moves at
\na glacial pace, I think we must continue to ask: why not look to social
\nnetworking models? why not ponder the connections denied<\/i> because of too hastily
\nrelegating social networking models to the trivial, to the inconsequential?
\nI brought it up briefly, but then somebody suggested I was an extrovert.
\nOh, maybe. But I’d resist self-identifying with anything -vert<\/i>.
\nVersions, rather. A rinse of extro- and introversions: Yeah, well, and I
\ndid<\/i> have a business card on hand. <\/p>\n

There’s much much much more, but this is ‘nough for today. Eventually I
\nwant to get down a few thoughts about 1.) Sounds of… projects, 2.) the halo
\neffect<\/i>–an advisor’s reputation as perceived network influence, 3.) the
\nclaim that "scale is dead" (and resurrected!) over dinner on Wednesday and the
\nrelated argument<\/strike> discussion that nearly had me breaking a sweat
\n(what happens when PhD students across disciplines disagree?), 4.) job interview
\nsimulations (play-acting a search committee with folks from other
\ndisciplines–me, a geographer and an info science technologist–interviewing an
\nanthropologist and then a comp\/rhet candidate), and 5.) chatting with the editor
\nof Names: The Journal of
\nOnomastics<\/a><\/i> and related ideas about toponyms and
\nplace-tagging<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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