Hi all, As I mentioned recently, this year there will be a panel on the main SHOT program discussing how SIG concerns are integrated into teaching. As part of SHOT's new website launch, comments from this panel and several other roundtables are being made available in advance (at http://shot-talk.org). I'll be representing the SIGCIS at this teaching panel, and I've posted a draft of my comments on the SIGCIS blog (first paragraph is below, rest is at: http://www.sigcis.org/node/380). Thank you to all those who responded with suggestions and insights as I was preparing these remarks. Feel free to leave comments on the blog post as well. Please come to the panel if you can--the full title of the panel is "Integrating SHOT SIG Concerns into the Teaching of History of Technology: Rethinking Modes of Instruction in a Diverse Communities" and it takes place on Saturday, Oct. 12 from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. It is part of the President's Roundtable program. ________________________________ Learning about Infrastructure, and Infrastructures for Learning: Insights on Pedagogy from the SIGCIS Our SIG is sometimes viewed as the “computer history SIG” and while that forms an important part of what we do, I would like to start by emphasizing that it is only one part of what we do. Members of our SIG work on topics ranging from telegraphy to labor history, and from voice recognition to video games. Collectively, we are interested in much more than a narrowly-defined computing history: our mandate is to study how computers, information, and society interact, shaping the human experience in the process. As a result, one of the main teaching goals of the SIGCIS is to help students learn how to contend with technologies of infrastructure that creep into all aspects of our lives, from the broadest to the most personal level. (Read the rest at http://www.sigcis.org/node/380) Marie ______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Asst. Professor, History of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL USA mhicks1@iit.edu | mariehicks.net | @histoftech