Michelle Martin has lots of news to share:
- Along with Liz Mills and Katie Campana, she received two acceptances to ALISE 2018 that include:
- Paper: “Mind the Gap: Bringing Research Methods out of the Classroom and into Everyday Youth Services to Build Research Literacy.”
- Poster: “Neighborhood Walks and Community Talks: A Research Study Examining Public Library Family Outreach Strategies and Challenges.”
- Education Week cited her in its article, Is ‘The Cat in the Hat’ Racist?
- The San Diego Union Tribune also quoted her in Dr. Seuss’ Racial History Draws Controversy.
- Kirkus Collections published her essay, Be an Accomplice, about making Children’s Literature more inclusive.
- She accepted the position of co-chair of the 2019 iConference Program Committee. She will serve with Bonnie Nardi.
- Calling Caldecott, the blog of Horn Book online that speculates which books will win the Caldecott Medal in February, will soon publish her review of Blue Sky, White Stars, by Savinder Naberhaus.
- Finally, she was elected to a 3-year term on the Board of Trustees for Billings Middle School.
Ricardo Gomez also has terrific news to report that includes:
- Along with doctoral student Yvette Iribe and other collaborators, he launched a new book based on participatory photography with indigenous community in Chiapas, Mexico. Women’s Words (also available in three languages, English, Spanish and Tseltal) documents the contribution of women’s work to well-being in the Tseltal Maya communities in Chiapas. This is the second of four in the series. The book is published by One Equal Heart Foundation.
- He was invited as keynote speaker to the Annual Dinner for One Equal Heart Foundation on October 14, 2017. He spoke about participatory research with women and indigenous world views of Tseltal indigenous community in Chiapas.
- Along with Sara Vannini, he published “Notions of home and sense of belonging in the context of migration in a journey through participatory photography,” in the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. EJISDC is one of the top journals in the field of ICTD.
- Along with Magdalena Fonseca, last winter and spring he co-chaired a UW Task Force for Undocumented Students. The final report with recommendations was made public in the September 6th UW Roundtable, convened to discuss how to confront President Trump’s dismantling of DACA.
Kris Morrissey will present at the Association of Science Technology Centers 2017 ASTC Conference in San Jose, California. In the session titled, Building a Professional Learning Framework for Informal STEM Education, she’ll talk about a multi-institutional research project funded by the National Science Foundation.
Anna Lauren Hoffman reviewed Sara Wachter-Boettcher’s new book Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech for Science Magazine (Oct 20th). Her review is titled, Biased tech design prompts a writer to call for resistance.