Around the Web

In October 2012, I wrote a piece for Digital Writing Month that counted (at that time) how much writing I had done on the web:

My contribution to the forest is: 435 posts, mostly on my blogs, but also includes guest posts and other digital writing; 47,641 (and counting) tweets, which includes founding #FYCchat and participating in various other Twitter chats (#digped or #dayofhighered); 24 stories on Storify; 147 comments on Disqus and 93 others using another name; and one Xtranormal video. But it only grows from there; this doesn’t include the hundreds and hundreds of comments on my various posts, the thousands of pageviews, the tweets and retweets, the links to my blog, and blog posts directly and indirectly inspired by what I have written (again, I’m particularly proud of#dayofhighered’s reach). Even three of my hard-to-find academic papers, those poor little potted plants, that I posted on Academia.edu have received almost 2000 views, joining the forest. This is the first time I’ve ever listed all the various trees in my forest, measured how big they have become, and I am awed by what it has grown into.

Here are some of the places where you can find me on the Web:

• The new home for College Ready Writing at Inside Higher Ed.
• I am also writing for Women in Higher Education. It's behind a paywall, but here is one of my pieces, Leadership Moves: Developing a Career Strategy.
• The Atlantic, a piece on the novel Brown Girl in the Ring and contemporary Detroit.
• Academic Coaching and Writing in a series called, An Academic, Writing and Academic Blogging. I've also done some webinars on Academic Blogging and Academic Twitter.
• I am now doing an "Ask a Professor" series at Metro News. 
• I also have done some Professional Development seminars, with a number of corresponding Prezi presentations.
• Chasing Laferrière, my blog about my research on author Dany Laferriere.
• Editing Modernism in Canada, where I am currently working on a digital edition of Anne Hébert's poetry.
• Uvenus.org is the University of Venus, a blog for Gen-X women academics. It also appears on insidehighered.com.

I have also published a number of guest blogs:

• On Hybrid Pedagogy, "It's About Class: Interrogating the Digital Divide," "It's Time to Play: Games, Gamification, and Active Learning," and "A Scholarship of Resistance: Bravery, Contingency, and Higher Education" (with Jesse Stommel).  
• On MediaCommons, "Bridging the Digital Divide in the Classroom."
• On Bitch Flicks, "Tami Taylor, My Hero," "Friday Night Lights: Deep in the Heart of Texas," "Things They Haven't Seen: The Women of Mad Men," and "16 and Pregnant: Degrassi and Abortion."
• On Prof Hacker, "Getting the Most from your Institution" and "How to Archive your Favorite Tweets." My posts on teaching were also often cited in their monthly Teaching Carnival roundups.
• On Day of DH 2013. 
• On The Daily Riff, "Dr. Jane (PhD) Can't Network Either."
• On Next Generation Learning Challenges, "Can 21st Century Technology Really Help Students Become Better Writers?"
• On The Huffington Post College, "Who Needs Sleep? One Professor 'Fesses Up."
• On Higheredlifecoach.com, "Are you ready for college?"
• SoEducated.com is a new site that I contributed to on issues of education, specifically rural education reform and challenges.
• EDleadernews.com is featuring some of my posts on their Higher Education section.
• Hackingtheacademy.org features some of my posts in the "Lectures, Classrooms, and Curriculum" and "Academic Employment, Tenure, and Scholarly Identity" sections.
• I'm providing a perspective from a professor on CampusSplash.com.

I've also appeared on the New York Times Motherload Blog, writing about parenting and reading. I discuss body issues on PigTailPals' blog. I'm a parent, too. If you want to dig REALLY deep into the archives, I had an article appear in SwimNews in print and online in (wait for it) 1997.

And even though this blog hasn't updated since October 2011, it still averages over 100 visits a day. Not Huffington Post numbers, I know, but still, not bad for an academic blog.