Archive for May, 2009

getting started with twitter in 14 easy steps

May 31st, 2009
on monday, june 1, from 10 am to noon, i'll be leading a workshop called getting started with twitter. the workshop is part of USF's center for instruction & technology and is for USF faculty, staff, and librarians.

this blog post serves as a rough outline for what we'll most likely be covering. comments and feedback encouraged.


getting started with twitter

intro: who are we?

basic twitter
1. creating a profile
2. following other people
3. tweeting
4. replying
5. RTing

advanced twitter
6. linking (with tinyurl)
7. favoriting
8. DMing
9. searching twitter
10. finding yourself (or the @yourname link)

enhanced twitter
11. tweetdeck, tweetie, and apps like that
12. integrating twitter with facebook

twitter tips
13. thinking about thin and thick tweets
14. already existing information optimally uploaded, or aeiou

wrap-up: collective brainstorming session about how each of us may use twitter in our academic (or not so academic) lives.

update: here's a photograph of today's workshop participants!

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Closed Wed. June 3, 2009

May 28th, 2009

Greetings! We will be closed Wednesday, June 3, 2009 for our annual staff retreat.

sorry

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congratulations class of 2009!

May 22nd, 2009

to the class of 2009 - celebrate your accomplishments, find a place where you can make a difference, and make us proud.

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last class of eating san francisco

May 21st, 2009
for our last class, the students and i in eating san francisco prepared a final feast. the assignment was for each of us to prepare a dish that was a) delicious and b) made from local, seasonal ingredients.

after a semester of delicious meals - in north beach, the mission, the castro, chinatown, and cole valley - this meal, the one we made collectively, was by far the most delicious.


(to learn more about what was served, roll your mouse over the annotated version on flickr.)

in addition to cooking a delicious meal, my students made media documenting their culinary creations. here's what they made:

Marco Abellera, Locally Prepared Dish
Chris Begley, Locally made Fruit n Nut Couscous for the last ESF of the year
Sam Blackburn, ESF's Final Feast. Best Meal of the Year!
Jessica Elkus, Napoleons!
Teresa Garcia, ESF: Pollan and me (and ESF: Final class banquet)
Jessie Hill, Localvore
Michael Kao, Local food
Stephanie Luu, ESF-Cooking Your Own Local Food
Kelli McCloskey, Cook A Delicious Meal For The Fiesta!
Austin O'Kane, Local, Organic and Everything a Meal Should Be…
Laura Plantholt, Cooking with Seasonal, Regional Food (and flickr set a delicious seasonal, regional dish)
Joel Weston, Turkey and Papas
Ashley Williamson, Strawberry Shortcake!
Ali Winston, ESF: The Last Supper


wow, ESFers, what a class, thank you. let's keep eating san francisco.

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No Summer Classes For Me

May 20th, 2009

It seems that all my friends are taking summer classes and I wish I was too. I found the perfect Microeconomics teacher, and I hope I can still manage to take him later on in the Fall or Spring. Summer in college feels so long. April to August is nearly four and a half months of vacation. I have been spending most of the time looking for a job, but most of my efforts so far have led nowhere. Finding a job today requires true determination and persistence, and I think I need a little more of that if I plan to land one.

In the meantime, I’m looking for alternative ways to earn money and trying to get back into applying for scholarships. Writing essays never felt so difficult. I am also trying to pick some of my hobbies and interests back up that I abandoned during the craziness that was Freshman Year of college.

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