Category Archives: History of Technology

Interview with inventor of Kevlar, Stephanie Kwolek

robinna/ June 23, 2014/ Technology, History of Technology, STEM, Innovation, Creativity, Blog posts/ 0 comments

I love this story. RIP, Stephanie Kwolek. “I love learning and I’m love learning new things, making discoveries… while her mother encourage creativity and even a future in fashion design,  her father was a naturalist and inspired stephanie’s curiosity about the outdoors. I had a father who was very much interested and plants and trees. I spent a lot of

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Yahoo buys vizify, shuts it down

robinna/ March 13, 2014/ Technology, History of Technology, Culture/ 0 comments

Vizify shuts dow: From Vizify: Keep your bio online a bit longer We’ve created a way to archive a snapshot of your bio so that it remains online at Vizify a while longer. You have until April 7, 2014 to archive your bio. Your archived bio will remain publicly visible through September 4, 2014. If you make changes to your

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The future of print books – crystal ball gazing

robinna/ December 31, 2013/ Technology, History of Technology, Culture, media/ 0 comments

Over the past few months, if not years, I keep reading about print books becoming obsolete. I don’t think that will happen – at least, not entirely. I see parallels between print books and vinyl. In high school, I worked in a record store that was transitioning from vinyl to CDs (cassettes and albums kind of co-existed, but CDs were

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happy ada lovelace day – tech, science, math, & geek girls!

robinna/ October 15, 2013/ Technology, History of Technology/ 0 comments

Happy Ada Lovelace Day geek girls! Celebrated on October 15th, the day aims to promote women working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and encourage female role models. It’s named in honour of Ada Lovelace, who wrote an algorithm for the engine in 1842 and is widely credited as being the world’s first computer programmer. (Robin note: She was the

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Embedded librarianship notes from an ACRL webinar

robinna/ April 30, 2013/ Libraries, History of Technology/ 0 comments

Getting started with Embedded Librarianship 1. Define partners 2. goals – priorities 3. How to embed a. traditional classroom : co-teacher model; works well with 1st year students b. embedding in LMS/ Course Manageemnt Systems “virtual” librarian c. Project teams – business programs, student groups, etc. d. liaison – student groups(?) e. curriculum (accreditation, new departments, new programs, reorganization) f.

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One world, one blog – merging identities, merging blogs

robinna/ November 15, 2012/ History of Technology, my projects, twitter, my art/ 0 comments

robinart 2006ish So, I had a personal/art blog over at my domain (robinart.com) from 2004-2007 (prior to that, it was just a very simple site). This blog was an early experiment in using a CMS (Content Management System); originally, a photoblog (more about  the software & history here); later, a place to talk about software, my projects, and life in general.

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