Marta Newhart, an alum from the University of Washington has several achievements including being the highest ranking Latino when she left Boeing where she had been for 20 years. She was recruited by Covidien, a major medical device manufacturing as their VP of Communications and Public Affairs. She then left that post to join a
Many of us wish we could channel the knowledge and wisdom of the people that have [gone through the experience we] achieved all or some of the things we aspire to accomplish. To be able to know how they arrived there. To learn about the challenges they faced and learn how to overcome them. To learn
Are you a prison educator or interested in prison-based education? Wish you had access to the internet based tools that your colleagues have? Think it can enhance learning and prepare those incarcerated for life in a technology driven society? Well, you do not have access to those tools, yet (if you do please drop me
I was invited to recite a spoken word piece at the Information School’s (iSchool) (University of Washington) Diversity Summit. After several iterations and feedback from friend in New York I finally had a finished poem. On Friday May 2, 2014 I had the pleasure of closing out the iSchool’s Diversity Summit with the spoken word piece I
Have you been trying to have a positive impact in peoples lives? Ever wonder about what it means to have an impact? This was topic of a presentation by Johnathan Grudin’s. Grudin is a renowned researcher at Microsoft Research, an instructor at the University of Washington’s iSchool, and the recipient of the 2014 inaugural CSCW Lasting
Some days I really miss Sprint—4g unrestricted speed and quality service in remote areas. But a recent interaction reminded me of some of the reasons I left them for T-Mobile. It all started when I logged in to Sprint under an acquaintance’s account to make a credit card payment on their behalf. Adding a credit
What is “R”? If you guessed, “a letter in the alphabet, d’oh!” 😀 You were right and on family feud that probably would have been the number one answer. But the letter “R” also represents a programming language typically used by people to compile statistics and analyze or create visual representations of a data set.
Would you ever hire an ex-con/felon (formerly incarcerated person)—to work in a public library? That was the question posed on a prison library listserv a few weeks ago. The exact question was, I have received a question from a prison librarian in Ohio regarding the hiring of ex-felons by a public library. These individuals have
Over the last few years many librarian have probably asked themselves “What programming language should I learn first?” If you haven’t you probably should! What is at stake? Probably your job (e.g. librarian, archivist, cataloger). Why? Because information science professionals are being expected to have some level programming knowledge. Yes even for some non-technical jobs.
Although the presence of internet-enabled tools seems ubiquitous, there are places where that is not true. Prisons is one of those places. Recognizing the importance to learning how to use to digital tools Ray Pulsipher with his ten plus years of technology related experience doing everything from providing technical support to serving as lead programmer on web development
