m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Sally Ride spoke last night in Jesse Auditorium in conjunction with the Delta Gamma Lectureship Series. She said that we really need to beat back the stereotypes that keep girls from careers in science: young girls need career books and female role models. Why should we care? Ride said that we need [...]

I attended the MSP retreat this evening. It was fun to see Keri and Amy again. Plus, I sat next to Carol, who taught us how to make paper back in June.
The welcoming dinner was held at the Grand Cru Restaurant here in Columbia, Missouri. I had steak for dinner. It [...]

I’m in a session today on Drupal, which is a content management system that instructors use to manage their content for their courses.
Instructors can have group blogs, or “story” pages, for their course website. Or, they can post their course documents (syllabus, schedule, etc.) to “book” pages. Instructors can also set up different [...]

I’m in Dallas now and waiting to connect to San Francisco. Below is a post from earlier before I could get a network connection.
I left Columbia at about 11:45 a.m. and I’m now inside the Kansas City Airport. I just checked my bags and found an Internet cafe. The 2-person tables are [...]

I went to hear bell hooks (texts at Amazon, allaboutbell)speak last night. This was my first time hearing her speak and I really enjoyed her talk. Below are my notes from last evening.
She brought up Paulo Freire’s work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed in the context of the struggle for hope. Donna has [...]

One of my instructors asked me to be on a committee to help plan a Peace Studies conference for next year. We had our first meeting this afternoon and I am going to head up the technology aspect. I am glad that he asked me and I am really happy to be a [...]

Well, I’m no longer a virgin; I submitted my first conference proposal. I’m too nervous to post anything more about it right now, but I’ll let you know what I hear. Good luck to any other last minute submitters like me!
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In the April 2004 issue of O, Mary Lou Quinlan writes about how she jumped off the fast track by taking five weeks off, and then found herself when she launched her new consulting firm that specializes in helping companies market their products to women. It’s not that Quinlan has completely jumped off the [...]