Josh Wells / is on Nostr

Professor of Anthropology and Social Informatics at Indiana University South Bend. PI of Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA).    #anthropology #archaeology #citizenscience #civictech #cyborg #cyborganthropology #digiarch #digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities #dh #digitalrights #FOSS #GIS #informatics #openScience #openData #openGov

   Also #biketowork #canoeing #cooking #HoosierMast #running #SciFi  

All communications here are mine, do not reflect my organizations.

Last Notes

2024-10-01 00:55:43

Hey Fediverse, I'm trying to develop an exercise for students to learn about literary figures on the network by investigating the accounts of science fiction authors. Can you help me out with suggestions of authors who are active here?
I have Bear, Doctorow, Gaiman, Gibson, Scalzi, Sterling, Tchaicovsky
#scifi #highered

2024-09-05 14:17:11

Digital natives are a myth. Each person has mix of proficiency + ignorance w/ICTs from their complex history involving sexism classism racism ageism access disparities and random factors of what info other people around them know to share.
Case in point: I just taught 30 college freshman who grew up in the age of smart devices how to use shift-click, ctrl/cmd click, and alt tab. I am now a god. "Why did nobody care to show us this before? Bless you!" they cried in worship.
#highered #proflife

2024-05-11 04:19:37

The #aurora over Lake Michigan tonight was quite a show #solarstorm
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/112/420/523/626/639/752/original/b4b863abcb734d20.jpeg
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/112/420/523/627/338/137/original/cabf27e21b4db1c6.jpeg

2023-08-22 19:10:22

Paging folks w/exp in training #MicrosoftTeams #Microsoft #Teams
I want to build a train-the-trainer network at my campus to help alleviate rampant ignorance in Teams use (admins won't do anything).
Suggestions for resources to use? Manuals, blogs, videos, etc.?
I am not Teams fluent, but I understand deeply how hardware, file systems, and networks function so I can seem passingly competent.
Thanks!
#Academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon @npub1t7d…h3ud

2023-08-20 18:33:39

Just bookmarked https://biobot.io/data/ to track COVID wastewater surge in my area.
Will keep it alongside https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#maps_new-admissions-rate-county
h/t @npub1up6…5rqj @npub1jgd…w59t