Making Accessible Futures

The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy

In April, I attended the Accessible Future workshop held at Emory. It was a fantastic introduction to how to increase accessibility on the web. My review of the workshop for JITP has just been published. It includes appendices on “Practices to Implement” and a bibliography of further readings and resources. Here’s the bibliography:

How To Do Things With Archives

A network graph created with Gephi and hand-entered data.

I was hooded in the Graduate Center’s commencement ceremony on Wednesday, and this morning I learned my advisor died. I had some difficulty working with Jane the past few years. On more than one occasion she wielded her considerable writing talents to skewer me in an email. But she was a forceful mentor, particularly important when I was new graduate student. She generously… Continue reading How To Do Things With Archives

Writing Machines

Red 1950s Royal typewriter

Around the new year, I got a typewriter. It was a birthday present from my parents. My mom became a typewriter convert several years ago. We visited Michael Ardito’s office on Staten Island, where he let me try out lots of manual typewriters, and I fell for the elegance of this red Royal. It clacks with the kind of satisfactory… Continue reading Writing Machines

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