TechTips
ideas for using the web and/or technology to make your life and work easier and more fun.
Women, Gender and the Law eJournal: Subscribe on SSRN
Apr 12th
This SSRN e-Journal distributes:
…working and accepted paper abstracts that relate to the relationship between women and the law, and gender and the law. The eJournal is interested in a wide range of topics with the focus of the eJournal being critical examinations of gender and the law. Interdisciplinary work is invited, as is research on legal education and the scholarship of law teaching as it relates to women and gender.
Believe it or not, this is another Kim Brooks production. SSRN is such a useful service – it sends many gems my way.
Wondering what SSRN is?
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is More >
New digital resource: Black Women Writers (Alexander St. Press)
Apr 10th
Black Women Writers is a digitized collection of more than 100000 pages put together by Alexander Street Press. Access is available through the Yorku Library system (sorry, it’s not universal) and has an amazing range of items, historical and contemporary. I am particularly interested in the range of non fiction Caribbean items (e.g. Writing Rage: Unmasking Violence Through Caribbean Discourse, by Paula Morgan and Valerie Youssef. (Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies, 2006)) but the fiction titles are very tempting. Poetry too!
H/T Osgoode Librarian Yemisi Dina.
iPad apps for Profs…Guinea pigs! Send me your “must have” app suggestions.
Jul 29th
I finally got a tablet and it is an iPad2. I am mostly smitten.* The iPad does seem friendlier than a laptop … It doesn’t serve as a physical barrier to the face (I really noticed the difference in one of my classes last year) and the apps do offer neat opportunities for sharing. The IFLS blog looks, i think, stunning on an iPad.
Now, I know that the iPad has some gender relations problems, see here. And certainly there are some “where are the women” moments in iPad chatter land, see here (helpful post on academics using iPads). And it’s a More >
Should IFLS be on FB? FB pages for legal/feminists
Jul 28th
You can show your love (or, “like”) for the UBC Law Centre for Feminist Legal Studies on FB, here. They have an FB page, and so does LEAF National, Egale Canada, and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Smart! Should the IFLS get a facebook page? Or is this, like mountain vistas and ocean air, something that just won’t fly here…. The FB page would probably duplicate the twitter feed, but if it’s a more convenient way for some of you to follow what we’re up to, I’d do it. And what of Google+? Ach. I can’t keep up.
News bigger than ANYONE’S wedding: Zotero: Canadian Legal Style Available
Apr 29th
via Slaw: Zotero: Canadian Legal Style NOW Available
oh boy. this is news. I ♥ zotero. Now even more!
