Brian+Hughes


 * CS22. Brian Hughes ** – (Tech Panel I) //Supporting Academic Creativity with Online Tools //;

May 27 Friday 10:45-12:15 PM HM 150

To open a discussion about the possibilities and limitations of academic creativity, I’ll share an example of a software application (pressible.org) designed to support and enhance knowledge sharing in an academic community. By contrasting its social characteristics with other knowledge sharing tools, I argue that it strikes a balance between strict scholarly norms and the alluring possibility of abandoning them. Affiliation/Bio: Teachers College, Associate Director of Design, Publishing, and Service at the Gottesman Libraries, bsh2001@columbia.edu. Brian is the Associate Director of Design, Publishing, and Service at the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College. Among other projects, he leads the development of Pressible, a network of blog-like publishing sites that is designed to support learning communities. He also guides the use of Pressible as a library service. His Teachers College dissertation (2006) examines how conceptions of moral excellence influence artistic traditions and creative practices.