By Any Other Nerd

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Last week, it finally happened. I submitted my dissertation to the institution for publication on their scholar work site. I believe a round of formatting edits is probably in order, but I've done the thing that will allow me to participate in the late May graduation. To say that it's a tremendous relief is an understatement.     As this website tag shows, I have been in this program for a decade, and during that time, I’ve written close to 100 posts. And now, I am done.     I think readers of this blog will find a few more posts forthcoming in this series. I have been meaning to write these and took notes on them, but never finished. I think they would be additionally helpful as other insights gathered in this journey.     For instance, I want to do a post about the media kit I created when I was looking for participants because it proved successful and I had some templated material that others might benefit from. Th...

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes I hit one of those deep and meaningful career moments last week at the annual NERCOMP conference.   I was incredibly honored to receive the Mark Berman Community Outreach Award at NERCOMP; it’s one of those career moments that you pause, look back, and appreciate how far you’ve come, but also are even more energized to look forward and consider how much more you want to do for supporting and connecting with folks in the teaching, learning, and technology spaces in higher ed. For some of you, it might be helpful to know more about both the organization and award.  NERCOMP is a regional organization in the northeastern of the US that focuses on technology in higher education with a focus on leadership, teaching & learning, and technological systems in higher ed.  There are  hundreds of institutional members and they do lots of professional development and also consortium discounts for different services.  The Mark Berma...