The Springfield iSchool

As you may be aware, The Simpsons Movie website has an avatar generator, so you can make yourself anew with a massive overbite and eyes most protuberant! Just what you always wanted! My goal is to have every iSchooler make an avatar of themselves so we can make a big Springfield iSchool poster for the lounge. Please contribute, and add you avatar to the iSchool Flickr group!


k7, does this even begin to deal with #10 of your ToTFBaBIL:P1 list?

The classic question

So what exactly is the iSchool? I’d love to answer this question with a single word, or maybe a nice link, but, truly, there is no easy response. We are neither multi-disciplinary nor cross-disciplinary but post-disciplinary. We study information and information technology through a variety of lenses: sociological, computational, economic, to name a few. Rooted in all of these disciplines we are synthesizing new directions for the design of technology. Where else could you use case law from a course on information law and policy to inspire designs for tangible interfaces? With scholarship and creativity, our unique iSchool perspectives carve us a nice niche on Berkeley’s campus. I’m proud to be a part.