Chris Lott

I was born in Alaska and lived right up to the moment you are reading this (I hope).

This is now home for my education/edtech/etc talk.

Otherwise: see @fncll

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

@beastlibrarian @UW I'm sure all those involved are happy to cede academic freedom rights to simply their first amendment rights. What a joke.

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

Important! If you can't join the march or picketing, at least sign the petition!

[SEIU Local 925 @SEIU925]

UW Libraries & Press staff voted to take a one-day strike Thursday, October 13. If you are in Seattle and can support SEIU 925 members please join us! Updated information on the rallies, pickets & marches can be found here: https://t.co/ZP20sfSQnP

#UWlibrarySTRIKE #Striketober

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

@BryanAlexander That's the direction I would go as well. There's no reason to have such travesties as synchronous events. Just post a video.

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

How is it that software like Outlook continues to change and never gets any better? It really doesn’t help things when you work in an institution owned by Microsoft.

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

Look into the actul details that got Katz fired and then read the NYT piece about he, his wife, and their cancerous little circle of well-fed friends and...looks like good riddance to bad rubbish. If tenure were actually in danger? Good. It needs to be sacked too.

[The Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle]

Opinion: When a college president condemns a professor's speech, can the prof get a fair shake? https://t.co/a0s52EYfBk

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

@DanLaSota @uafecampus I think my use of the four categories wasn’t from that in particular, predated it, but it was a common formulation at the time. I’ll see if I have any notes or links that go back further.

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

I wish more faculty spent 1/10 the time and effort on their teaching that they do airing repetitive grievances at administrative structures that largely exist and sprawl because of their own outrageous behavior, inordinate privilege, and endemic classism.

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

The leadership flight continues. Who's next? Anyone? Bueller? For those about to flee (we salute you?): telling people not to read between the lines has precisely the opposite effect, believe me.

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

@cherylcolan Rest easy with your thumbs...that appears to be a bit of folk etymology.

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

I'm not just an idea person, but a *vague-ideas*. Collaborators, you have been warned.

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

@dwhly @hypothes_is Funny thing: the question came to me (again) when I wanted to make some notes on the recent Liquid Margins video (https://t.co/vFDVVqN7ao :) -- also, I am investigating solutions to recommend to instructors for themselves and their students and I stan https://t.co/ewJoyPtJpJ !

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

Is there an @hypothes_is like service for annotating YouTube videos (at least)? Or a private method that creates something exportable and useful in the open?

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

@dwhly @hypothes_is That is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Very cool...thanks!

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

Video from the recently concluded #OER22 Open Education conference → https://t.co/2v9zKQId3f

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

"X was told about accessibility needs with less than a week's warning and had to choose between not meeting accessibility requirements or doing a major revamp of her slides and other course materials with almost no notice." → The answer: design for accessibility from the start!

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

Looks like UW isn't planning much in the way of 4/20 celebrations LOL

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

Yeah, I'm back on the Twitter. Sort of.

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

I have a simple solution to the DEI statement controversy: get rid of tenure. It almost never protects free speech; it almost always creates sinecures that at best don't benefit, at worst are detrimental to, teaching and learning.

[Chris Lott @clottuw]

I’m leaving Twitter for an amount of time TBD, but likely for a long time, maybe for good. I’m available at clott@ uw — have fun!