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Getting to Know Your Professors: Virtual Office Knickknacks

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | March 20, 2008 - 10:40

It’s a longstanding tradition to find personal knickknacks like family photos, vacation snapshots, souvenirs, posters, paper airplanes, signed baseballs, fuzzy dice – you name it – in professors’ office space. These precious artifacts of humanity can tell you a lot about your professor. I still remember sitting in one of my law professor’s offices looking at a photo and thinking, “Hey, that’s my professor with Yasser Arafat!”

In Stephanie Rosenbloom’s NYT article “The Professor as Open Book,” psychologist and associate professor Sam Gosling of the University of Texas at Austin suggests that some professors are transferring this tradition to virtual environments through blogs, personal webpages, and Facebook or MySpace pages. Students are mining these pages to find out the personal information that their professors are readily sharing with the virtual public, with some professors hoping to appear more approachable to their students.

Would Professor Kingsfield from “The Paper Chase” approve?


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