As I’m currently moving to a new institution and a slate of new courses, I’ve been grateful for colleagues who are willing to share past syllabi. I’ve always believed that pedagogy is simply a fancier name for “borrowing and remixing,” and I think most others in the profession feel this way.
When it gets to our research, however, we tend to clam up. We don’t want to share until we’re quite done with a topic on the chance that we’ll get scooped. Which is why Mark Sample’s recent post on sharing his Zotero library feels so revolutionary (or is that common sensical?). He not only explains why he’s doing this, but he shows you how to roll your own RSS feed using Dapper and Yahoo Pipes so you too can show others on your blog what you’ve “Recently Zoteroed.”
The more academics show their work–while they’re still working on it–the more we can learn, borrow, and remix from one another.
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