For the first time in several months, I've tinkered with this web site! Nothing too dramatic -- I changed the design and color scheme (do you like it?) and deleted Dangerous Tasks from my list of blogs on the "Web Presence" page (since I no longer maintain that blog). 


I'll be attending the Higher Education Summit at Blog Indiana 2009 coming up on August 13. Blog Indiana is the state's largest social media conference, and at the higher education summit I'll be attending sessions on using Facebook in the classroom, getting college administrators to use Twitter, and other similar talks. (See also my recent Casting Out Nines post, The blogging VPAA.) 
 
 

Here are a few recent and upcoming items that will eventually make their way into the CV:

• I've been named to the editorial board of Mathematics Exchange, a journal of undergraduate research published through Ball State University. My role on the board will be mainly to recruit undergraduates to publish their stuff and to recruit mathematicians to referee, and possibly to do a little refereeing myself. Math Exchange is a great journal, very well-suited for undergraduates doing any kind of research or independent study, and I'm excited about forming this relationship with the fine folks who put that journal out.

• I found out last week that I will definitely be attending the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics this coming March. I went to the ICTCM last year and had a fabulous time. I'm currently vetting some ideas for talks and workshops to give at the ICTCM this year, and once I get those figured out and submitted, they'll be added to my CV.

• And speaking of Ball State, I've been invited to come up there in the spring and give a mathematical talk. I'll be talking either about digital signatures like I did at Benedictine University last April or about my work with cycle decompositions of columnar transposition ciphers.