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.

Artifacts of the iSchool

I don't think any one story or anecdote about iSchool life can fully encapsulate the experience.
I give you "Titles of Ten Future Blogposts about Berkeley iSchool Life. Part One."

10. Our Many-Tentacled Flickr presence
9. LocalOaf.org
8. The Animated Annual Email Punch-Up (aka the Noise v. Fun drama and Subsequent Life Lessons)
7. Scenes From The Lawn: The Littlest Data-Entry Bear
6. The 'Zine hole (aka, What We Read)
5. Wiki wiki wiki
4. Smells Like Lounge Spirit (at least until we get ceiling fans)
3. Morally Undefeated
2. Getting Your Job On
1. Daddy Gets Snacks, Thursday Makes you Thirsty
0. Never Fully Believe Your Data Source (aka Lists can be longer than you think!)
-1. Two-oh WHAT? Backchannels, Booleans, Borges, Bicycles and Bob.

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