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Mistaken Goal: Where Higher Education & Technology Meet


"...technology is not something that happens to us. It is something we create. We must not confuse a tool with a goal. We must, therefore, be sure that technology serves the fundamental purposes of higher education." Stanley N. Katz in "In Information Technology, Don't Mistake a Tool for a Goal"

My Online Bibliography

Posted on June 01st 2007 in Research

If you haven’t checked out my online bibliography, I’d recommend you do so as I presume you are interested in many of the same topics in which I am interested. You can find it by clicking on the tab labeled “wikindx” on my webpage. It’s not the most user-friendly application in the world but it meets my needs.

It’s searchable so you can always look for specific authors, topics, or other metadata or bibliographic data. Some of the records includes links to the original documents when they’re available online. When I use the tool and log in, I can not only create new records and edit existing ones but I can (and do) upload documents associated with bibliographic records. In other words, even though you can’t seem them and access them, most of the records have electronic copies of the item attached to them. So this not only functions as a bibliographic and note-taking tool (you can associate abstracts, quotes, and other notes with the records) but it also functions as a web-accessible library of research documents for me.

If there is a particular document that interests you but you don’t have access to it (no publicly-available URL, your local libraries don’t carry it, etc.), go ahead and drop me a line and if it’s legal and ethical I’ll send you a copy. I don’t want to encourage or be privy to copyright infringement or unethical behavior. :)

Aside from its value as a information resource about the topics in which I am interested, it’s also interesting to note that this is an interesting information resource about me and my activities and interests. It’s an interesting exercise to be placing some of my research notes on a publicly-accessible webpage where anyone can read them and attribute them to me (although I hope that everyone understands the nature of off-the-cuff remarks and notes to myself). You can also track my research interests and get a good idea of my research activities by analyzing some of the information available about the resources I’ve entered, particularly when I entered them and modified them. You can definitely tell that one of my current projects focuses on social networking and Facebook.

Those who wish to closely stalk me and be notified of changes to my bibliography can even subscribe to an RSS feed.

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