From: Benjamin Mako Hill Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 00:07:45 +0000 (-0400) Subject: added teaching statement into git X-Git-Url: https://projects.mako.cc/source/bmh-teaching_statement/commitdiff_plain/29f9505a116fcc57c9b76e614afc6b411c4f4499 added teaching statement into git --- 29f9505a116fcc57c9b76e614afc6b411c4f4499 diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ac6c1d --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +auto/ diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b219b72 --- /dev/null +++ b/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +#!/usr/bin/make + +all: $(patsubst %.tex,%.pdf,$(wildcard *.tex)) +pdf: all + +%.pdf: %.tex + perl -p -e 's/©//' refs.bib > refs-cleaned.bib + recode -d u8..ltex < refs-cleaned.bib > refs-processed.bib + rubber -fd $< + +clean: + rubber -d --clean *.tex + rm -f *.tmp + rm -f vc + rm -f refs-cleaned.bib + rm -f refs-processed.bib + +viewpdf: all + evince *.pdf + +spell: + aspell -c -t --tex-check-comments -b text.tex + +vc: + vc-git + +.PHONY: clean all diff --git a/mako-mem.sty b/mako-mem.sty new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e1dcc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/mako-mem.sty @@ -0,0 +1,220 @@ +% Some article styles and page layout tweaks for the LaTeX Memoir class. +% +% Copyright 2009 Benjamin Mako Hill +% Copyright 2008-2009 Kieran Healy + +% Distributed as free software under the GNU GPL v3 + +% This file is heavily based on one by Kieran Healy +% available here: http://github.com/kjhealy/latex-custom-kjh/ + +\usepackage{lastpage} + +% blank footnote +% Use \symbolfootnote[0]{Footnote text} for a blank footnote. +% Useful for initial acknowledgment note. +\long\def\symbolfootnote[#1]#2{\begingroup% +\def\thefootnote{\fnsymbol{footnote}}\footnote[#1]{#2}\endgroup} + +% >> article-1 << +\makechapterstyle{article-1}{ + \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ugm} + \renewcommand{\sfdefault}{phv} + + \setsecheadstyle{\large\scshape} + \setsubsecheadstyle{\normalsize\itshape} + \renewcommand{\printchaptername}{} + \renewcommand{\chapternamenum}{} + \renewcommand{\chapnumfont}{\chaptitlefont} + \renewcommand{\printchapternum}{\chapnumfont \thechapter\space} + \renewcommand{\afterchapternum}{} + \renewcommand{\printchaptername}{\secheadstyle} + \renewcommand{\cftchapterfont}{\normalfont} + \renewcommand{\cftchapterpagefont}{\normalfont\scshape} + \renewcommand{\cftchapterpresnum}{\scshape} + \captiontitlefont{\small} + + % turn off chapter numbering + \counterwithout{section}{chapter} + \counterwithout{figure}{chapter} + \counterwithout{table}{chapter} + + % reduce skip after section heading + \setaftersecskip{1.2ex} + + \pretitle{\newline\centering \LARGE\scshape \MakeLowercase } + \posttitle{\par\vskip 1em} + \predate{\footnotesize \centering} + \postdate{\par\vskip 1em} + + % 'abstract' title, bigger skip from title + \renewcommand{\abstractname}{} + \abstractrunin + +% set name of bibliography to 'references' +\renewcommand{\bibname}{References} +} + +% >> article-2 << +\makechapterstyle{article-2}{ + \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ugm} + \renewcommand{\sfdefault}{phv} + + \setsecheadstyle{\Large\scshape\MakeLowercase} + \setsubsecheadstyle{\normalsize\itshape} + \setaftersubsubsecskip{-1em} + \setsubsubsecheadstyle{\small\bfseries} + \renewcommand{\printchaptername}{} + \renewcommand{\chapternamenum}{} + \renewcommand{\chapnumfont}{\chaptitlefont} + \renewcommand{\printchapternum}{\chapnumfont \thechapter\space} + \renewcommand{\afterchapternum}{} + \renewcommand{\printchaptername}{\secheadstyle} + \renewcommand{\cftchapterfont}{\normalfont} + \renewcommand{\cftchapterpagefont}{\normalfont\scshape} + \renewcommand{\cftchapterpresnum}{\scshape} + \captiontitlefont{\small} + + % turn off chapter numbering + \counterwithout{section}{chapter} + \counterwithout{figure}{chapter} + \counterwithout{table}{chapter} + + % supress chapter numbers + \maxsecnumdepth{chapter} + \setsecnumdepth{chapter} + + % reduce skip after section heading + \setaftersecskip{1.7ex} + + % Title flush left + \pretitle{\flushleft\LARGE \itshape} + \posttitle{\par\vskip 0.5em} + \preauthor{\flushleft \large \lineskip 1em} + \postauthor{\par\lineskip 1em} + \predate{\flushleft\footnotesize\vspace{0.65em}} + \postdate{\par\vskip 1em} + + % 'abstract' title, bigger skip from title + \renewcommand{\abstractname}{\normalfont\scriptsize\noindent} + \renewcommand{\abstracttextfont}{\normalfont\scriptsize} + \abstractrunin + + % set name of bibliography to 'references' + \renewcommand{\bibname}{References} +} + +% >> article-3 << +\makechapterstyle{article-3}{ + \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ugm} + \renewcommand{\sfdefault}{phv} + + \setsecheadstyle{\large\sffamily\bfseries\MakeUppercase} + \setsubsecheadstyle{\normalsize\itshape} + \setaftersubsubsecskip{-1em} + \setsubsubsecheadstyle{\small\bfseries} + \renewcommand{\printchaptername}{} + \renewcommand{\chapternamenum}{} + \renewcommand{\chapnumfont}{\chaptitlefont} + \renewcommand{\printchapternum}{\chapnumfont \thechapter\space} + \renewcommand{\afterchapternum}{} + \renewcommand{\printchaptername}{\secheadstyle} + \renewcommand{\cftchapterfont}{\normalfont} + \renewcommand{\cftchapterpagefont}{\normalfont\scshape} + \renewcommand{\cftchapterpresnum}{\scshape} + \captiontitlefont{\small} + + % turn off chapter numbering + \counterwithout{section}{chapter} + \counterwithout{figure}{chapter} + \counterwithout{table}{chapter} + + % supress chapter numbers + \maxsecnumdepth{chapter} + \setsecnumdepth{chapter} + + % reduce skip after section heading + \setaftersecskip{1pt} + \setbeforesecskip{-1em} + + % 'abstract' title, bigger skip from title + % \renewcommand{\maketitle}{\{\preauthor \theauthor\} \hfill \thetitle} + \renewcommand{\maketitle}{ + {\LARGE\sffamily\bfseries\MakeUppercase\thetitle} \hfill + {\LARGE\sffamily\MakeUppercase\theauthor} + \vskip 0.7em} + \renewcommand{\abstractname}{\normalfont\scriptsize\noindent} + \renewcommand{\abstracttextfont}{\normalfont\scriptsize} + \abstractrunin + + % set name of bibliography to 'references' + \renewcommand{\bibname}{References} + + \parindent 0pt + +} + +%%% Custom styles for headers and footers +%%% Basic +\makepagestyle{mako-mem} +%\makeevenfoot{mako-mem}{\thepage}{}{} +%\makeoddfoot{mako-mem}{}{}{\thepage} +%\makeheadrule{mako-mem}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness} +\newcommand{\@makomarks}{% + \let\@mkboth\markboth + \def\chaptermark##1{% + \markboth{% + \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne + \if@mainmatter + \thechapter. \ % + \fi + \fi + ##1}{}} + \def\sectionmark##1{% + \markright{##1}} +} +\makepsmarks{mako-mem}{\@makomarks} +\makepsmarks{mako-mem}{} +\makeevenhead{mako-mem}{}{}{\scshape\thepage} +\makeoddhead{mako-mem}{}{}{\scshape\thepage} + +%%% version control info in footers; requires vc package +% Make the style for vc-git revision control headers and footers +\makepagestyle{kjhgit} +\newcommand{\@kjhgitmarks}{% + \let\@mkboth\markboth + \def\chaptermark##1{% + \markboth{% + \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne + \if@mainmatter + \thechapter. \ % + \fi + \fi + ##1}{}} + \def\sectionmark##1{% + \markright{##1}} +} +\makepsmarks{kjhgit}{\@kjhgitmarks} +\makeevenhead{kjhgit}{}{}{\scshape\thepage} +\makeoddhead{kjhgit}{}{}{\scshape\thepage} +\makeevenfoot{kjhgit}{}{\texttt{\footnotesize{\textcolor{Blue}{git revision \VCRevision\ on \VCDateTEX}}}}{} +\makeoddfoot{kjhgit}{}{\texttt{\footnotesize \textcolor{Blue}{git revision \VCRevision\ on \VCDateTEX}}}{} + +%% Create a command to make a note at the top of the first page describing the +%% publication status of the paper. +\newcommand{\published}[1]{% + \gdef\puB{#1}} + \newcommand{\puB}{} + \renewcommand{\maketitlehooka}{% + \par\noindent\footnotesize \puB} + +\makepagestyle{memo} +\makeevenhead{memo}{}{}{} +\makeoddhead{memo}{}{}{} + +\makeevenfoot{memo}{}{\scshape \thepage/\pageref{LastPage}}{} +\makeoddfoot{memo}{}{\scshape \thepage/\pageref{LastPage}}{} + + +\endinput + diff --git a/teaching_statement.tex b/teaching_statement.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cb41961 --- /dev/null +++ b/teaching_statement.tex @@ -0,0 +1,204 @@ +\documentclass[10pt]{memoir} + +% based on kieran healy's memoir modifications +\usepackage{mako-mem} +\chapterstyle{article-3} +\pagestyle{memo} + +\usepackage{ucs} +\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} + +\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} +\usepackage{textcomp} +\usepackage[garamond]{mathdesign} + +\usepackage[letterpaper,left=1.2in,right=1.2in,top=1.2in,bottom=1.2in]{geometry} + +% packages i use in essentially every document +\usepackage{graphicx} +\usepackage{enumerate} + +% packages i use in many documents but leave off by default +% \usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb} +% \usepackage{dcolumn} +% \usepackage{endfloat} + +% import and customize urls +\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color} +\usepackage[breaklinks]{hyperref} + +\hypersetup{colorlinks=true, linkcolor=Black, citecolor=Black, filecolor=Blue, + urlcolor=Blue, unicode=true} + +% add bibliographic stuff +\usepackage[round]{natbib} +\def\citepos#1{\citeauthor{#1}'s (\citeyear{#1})} +\def\citespos#1{\citeauthor{#1}' (\citeyear{#1})} + +% import vc stuff after running `make vc`: \input{vc} \pagestyle{kjhgit} + +\newenvironment{enumerate*}% + {\begin{enumerate}% + \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}% + \setlength{\parskip}{0pt}}% + {\end{enumerate}} + +\begin{document} + +\setlength{\parskip}{4.5pt} + +\baselineskip 14.5pt + +\title{Teaching Statement} +\author{Benjamin Mako Hill} +\date{} + +% \published{\textsc{\textcolor{BrickRed}{This document is an +% unpublished draft.\\ Please do not distribute or cite without +% permission.}}} + +\maketitle + +When I was eighteen and frusterated with high school, I took extra +classes, graduated early, and moved to Ethiopia. A year later, I +matriculated at Hampshire College: an experimental institution without +grades, tests, or majors. I chose Hampshire becase I cared deeply +about a personal connection to learning that I felt more traditional +institutions would not afford. + +Today, I am passioante about teaching and I take pride in teaching +well. However, as someone once driven away from traditional higher +education, I also have a healthy ambivalence about my role at the +front of the lecture hall and seminar table and strong feelings about +how to help students learn. Before each lecture, I reflect on the +total human-hours my teaching consumes. In every class meeting, my +students give me dozens, even hundreds, of hours of their attention. I +strive to never waste it. + +I have noted that graduating PhD students have spent most of their +lives in apprentice-like relationships. From their first day of grade +school to their dissertation defense, students learn eveything from +reading and arithmetic to sociological theory and multi-level +statistical modeling from teachers who have and use that knowledge +themselves. ``I know something that I find useful,'' a teacher might +say, ``and I want my student to be like me.'' + +In much of higher education -- and in graduate and professional +teaching in particular -- this relationship breaks down for the first +time in most students' and teachers' lives. In business schools, where +I teach most often, lectures are given by professors trained as +academic sociologists, economists, and psychologists. To say that few +business school students have an interest in becoming social +scientists would be understatement. I have seen how a failure to +recognize this dynamic can lead to a lack of respect and a lack of +connection between teachers and students seen as, ``the folks who pay +the bills.'' + +But this setting has also shown me that teaching that confronts, and +takes advantage of, this dynamic can lead to transformative learning +experiences. Successful teaching across intellectual domains goes +beyond the simple reproduction of skills and knowledge and becomes a +process of adapation and instantiation of knowledge in the context of +students' personal experiences. I understand that most of my students +do not want to be a researcher like me. I believe that in spite of +this unusual and challenging relationship, and \emph{because of it}, I +can teach students in ways that suprise, connect, and enrich. + +\section{Teaching Experience} + +Over the course of graduate school, I have learned to teach from my +mentors and have put this philosophy into practice in lectures and +seminars to MBAs, engineers, executives, undergraduates, and Masters +of Science students. + +Over the last three years, I have served as the teaching assistant for +Professor Eric von Hippel's lecture courses on innovation where I have +worked closely with students on the design and evaluation of their +course projects. In these classes, I have developed, delivered, and +refined a series of 90 minutes lectures as a guest lecturer in those +classes. In particular, I have developed a lecture on Internet-based +user innovation communities based around the case of consumer +``hacking'' of Canon cameras and a practical lecture on how to attract +participants to online communities. + +After positive evaluations from students in these course, I have been +invited to give regular lectures in MIT's Executive Education and +Visiting MBA programs. These lectures have focused on fundemental +introduction to concepts on innovation management and user communities +and on practical methods for putting these into action including lead +user methods, broadcast search, and the construction of user +communities. + +In addition to experience in the lecture hall, I have also run a +series of seminars for smaller groups of graduate students. Working +with Tom Malone at the Center for Collective Intelligence, I +coordinated an interdisciplinary seminar on collective +intelligence. Working with Chris Csikszentmihályi, I organized and ran +a graduate seminar on Free, Libre and Open Source +Software. + +Outside of organizing my own seminars, I have taught in a number of +seminars at MIT Sloan, the MIT Media Lab, the MIT Program on +Comparative Media Studies, Harvard Law School, the Stanford Design +School, and elsewhere. Since 2011, I have also coordinated a reading +group on empirical research into online cooperation at the Berkman +Center for Intenet and Society at Harvard. + +\section{Mentoring} + +Of course, not all of teaching is unlike apprenticeship and I have +also enjoyed my experience as a mentor to developing scholars and +researchers. I have had the pleasure of mentoring several +undergraduates at MIT through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities +Program. These students worked with me on both a full-time basis over +the summer and in a part-time capacity over the academic year giving +me experience with day-to-day management and more hands-off +relationships. + +Additionally, I have served as an external advisor to two Masters +degree students. I advised and evaluated one Masters Thesis on +technology design and in am currently advising a Masters thesis +studying a large free software community. In both cases, I have +enjoyed meeting regularly and engaging with students over the life of +their research projects. + +\section{Example Courses} + +Undergraduate --- + +\begin{enumerate*} +\item \emph{Innovation in the Internet Age}: An introduction to the + theory and practice of innovation management. Topics include + traditional firm-based innovation as well innovation by hackers, + user communities, free and open source software, and lead users. +\item \emph{Quantitative Research Methods}: An introductory class on + applied statistics. Topics include basic stastical methods up to, + and including, linear regression with programming excercises using + real data. +\item \emph{Computer Mediated Communication}: An overview of practical + and theoretical issues related to computer-mediated + communication. The class focuses on analyses of pratice but also + incorporate readings and lectures on system implementation and + design. +\end{enumerate*} + +Graduate --- +\begin{enumerate*} +\item \emph{Topics in Peer Production}: Seminar on foundational work + as well as recent advances in the study and support of free and open + source software, wikis, and remixing communities. +\item \emph{Research Methods for ``Big Data''}: An introduction to + statistical methods and tools for finding and manipulating very + large datasets. Topics include network analysis, analysis of + unstructured text, and programming for massively parallel computing + systems. +\item \emph{Social Computing}: The theory, analysis, and design of + large scale, computer mediated social systems. Final projects will + challenge students to create a new systems or execute a study of an + existing system. +\end{enumerate*} + + + +\end{document} +