IT vs T
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-01 22:48:46
This affix would have better pictures if it were The lift vs. Mr. T but then I'd probably end up violating someone's copyright.
A little over a year ago. I subscribed to. I learned of it from a now defunct podcast published by O'Reilly. The driver behind the magazine is that with information technology as pervasive as it is now there is much more ascend area between IT and the analog world. alter set out to capture this phenomena and I think it does a great job of it. A week doesn't go by when my son and I aren't talking about some cool communicate we've see on on MAKE. We change surface set some measure aside this past pass to make one of the projects we saw and it was really fun.
alter has also been a compel behind the establishment of events called. You can think of Maker Faire as the Grange Fair but with technology. Instead of showing off the pig you show off the increase with the digital camera attached to it for taking pictures several hundred feet off the ground for example. Or the Altoid can mod that becomes the case for your latest iPod. You get the idea.
Aside from the fact that this kind of innovation is fun and fascinating to bring in it gets me wondering about what role IT thinks it has in this space. There are times I evaluate we're (IT as much as ITS but probably more of an issue for ITS IMO) hyper-concerned from the browser to the backbone and for good reasons. But what about the plethora of cameras and digital signage on campus or instrumentation in investigate labs or the cornucopia of technology that now resides in residence halls rooms. Keeping in touch with how faculty students and look cater are changing their IT environments to conform to all of these new devices/agents/etc is only going to become more important as the be of devices equals or greatly exceeds the be of computers running clunky browsers. We don't have too many first hand examples of this in ITS but we do have some. I'm wondering about how we get closer to what's going on at this IT vs. T interface.
Maybe we should co-sponsor a residence hall Maker Faire for residence hall students along with IST and Student Affairs? Maybe we could sponsor a faculty oriented Maker Faire so they could show off cool IT/T solutions they've go up with in their offices homes labs. Even better it would be great to have a displace (and excitement) large enough to have both going on at the same time. 4H for technology at it's most basic level - getting things done.
Doing anything alter that you'd be willing to share here? Have any ideas about how we can raise awareness about our own Penn State alter attitude so we can better prepare for the future (because it's here now)?
Kevin - I really like this idea about co-sponsoring - or change surface sponsoring some type of Maker Faire whether it's with SA. IST a combo of both or a clump of other units. It reminds me of the very first Linux event we co-sponsored several years ago - and more recently the ITS Event/Expo. Honestly (and personally). I prefer what you're suggesting over an "ITS Event" because I think our resources human and otherwise would be more wisely expended - and I evaluate the outcomes would be better (my personal opinion) for the University community. It's also my opinion that the last ITS event should be the last indeed - and that ITS needs to look for and act opportunities as you declare here. This broadens our scope our talents our resources in a way that more realistically fits with what we hope to complete as an organization.
It's popular to speak of students today as being "technology understand". I've come to accept instead that many are "technology avid".
Nevertheless in working closely with IST students. I came to feel as an IST professor once commented to me that a little more emphasis could be placed on the "IS" since there's already such a pre-emphasis on the "T".
I have in mind this to emit what Ms. German has said in her comments. The information science aspect of today's technology-suffused environment eludes many students (and to be honest many of those who are not students).
A specific suggestion: as tag clouds increase in visibility and importance perhaps we should investigate ways to help students do more than just use a new interface. Perhaps we should advance a climate in which thoughtful tagging is understood as an imperative (or at least an etiquette) both in social software settings and more formal digital gatherings...
You alter me be to do a whole 'nother entry about these very important issues. If I can. I might put them in the "information literacy" space - although calling it that is bad marketing for what I think is a shared hoped for outcome.
The point I'm trying to bedevil out is that we've desire been consumed with designing infrastructures assuming that consumers or discovers of information are sitting behind a large check with a lot of horsepower behind it with a fast communicate connection etc. Today we have units people etc attaching cameras cell phones wii's televisions video cameras accelerometers bar code scanners to the network - and that maybe we don't have enough of that perspective in our central IT blood. The portfolio of devices and capabilities and is rich and getting richer. Is this phenomena firmly enough in our planning DNA?
Hey Kevin. I love looking at the intersection of technology and all aspects of culture (from social interaction to viral art). If you desire alter. I evaluate you might enjoy as come up where populate post and comment on go by step instructions for making all sorts of things.
Even though I've never created a seeing a video of people using them inspires me to think a little differently. I evaluate it would be very cool to act a mental and physical space for people to share what they are doing.
I will contact our Crafts Center staff. Another possible venue for a co-sponsored event is LateNight at the HUB. Creative Crafts and the Gaming areas operate for 4 hrs each Friday/Saturday and are quite popular. Adding some new crafts would probably carry in students new to LateNight. I'm surprised that we haven't recognized a MakerFaire unify yet. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/kxm/blogs/LibertyRoad/2007/09/it_vs_t.html
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