As we enter the fifth day of Matthew’s life outside the womb, I’m finding I do not have the time to craft a particularly eloquent essay on the topic of women and computing—Carrie and I spent the majority of the last night awake, and we both have long days ahead of us. (I get off easy with classes and meetings throughout the day.) So, we’ll go for short and to-the-point.
I will simply say that I am grateful to my academic parents—my colleagues at the University of Kent—and specifically Sally Fincher, my PhD supervisor, for the absolutely world-class mentorship I received. Further, through her work on the Bootstrapping and Scaffolding projects, the Disciplinary Commons, and the founding of ICER, I know that many other people have benefited from her knowledge and insight when it comes to computer science education research.
This is really great. Several years ago, I had the good fortune of meeting Didith Rodrigo… the details of which are a story for another time. For the moment, it is nice to see that the work that she and her students have been doing will be shared with our colleagues in CS-ED(R). And I’m very glad that I’ve been able to play a part in this ongoing work.
I don’t think I can get over to Paris this July, but it would be nice.
For those following along at home, no… still no baby.
I received the funniest piece of SPAM today. In fact, it was almost not-SPAM. As far as I can tell, a human being wrote me. Possibly. It could just be a particularly eloquent script.
Just plain wacky. I’ll give them this much link-love for completely arbitrary reasons. I mean, why not. Like all the children in Lake Woebegone, I’m apparently “above average”. This is almost as entertaining as when I discovered that Squeaky owned 80% of the market share in my blog on blogshares.com.
Mike, I have not forgotten about my commitment to give something new a try.
I did want to point out, though, that my favorite shoe is now available in a biodegradable flavor:
The Brooks Trance line is going biodegradable (as reported on MetaEfficient). I’m quite excited about this. First, however, I have some other shoes to beat up. And, some non-shoes to try out as well.
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