Archive for August, 2008
I <3 Consumerism
Published by August 31st, 2008 in Internet Archive and insructional technology. 1 CommentToday it really hit me that UMW Blogs is back and roaring. I rolled through the jungle filled with RSS and picked lovingly from the fruit of connected people thinking about wild stuff. And I knew it for sure when I read Jesse Kopp’s first blog post of the semester:
From the makers of last [...]
Claudia Emerson: Poet Laureate of Virginia
Published by August 28th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 1 CommentIt’s been hectic on the Mary Washington campus these last few days, and in all the hustle and bustle of classes starting up a pretty honor for one of our faculty was announced. Professor Claudia Emerson was named the poet laureate of Virginia by Governor Kaine on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008.
I couldn’t be more excited [...]
…this is how I’m feeling right about now:
And kinda like this:
Yo La Tengo – Deeper Into Movies
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And even a little like this:
The Roots – Double Trouble
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Oh yeah, and this:
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Unwound – We Invent You (Extended)
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All amped up!
Course blogs, Sitewide Tags, and FeedWordPress
Published by August 26th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, plugins, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 17 CommentsOK, I’m officially in full blown UMW Blogs blogging mode, I will most likely prove insufferable for the next month or so, and that’s just the way it is, suckas!
Today I actually gave my first advanced training session on WordPress to a group of five faculty. And I have to say it was a [...]
P4P: Universities as techno-corporate thinktanks?
Published by August 25th, 2008 in bitTorrent, edupunk, piracy and politics. 1 CommentI’m a fan of TorrentFreak, it’s one of those rare blogs that streams interesting news on a very specific subject and openly acknowledges its biases while providing the reader with a ton of information to fend for themselves. In fact, I have come to think of TorrentFreak as one of the outposts in a war [...]
Speech, YouTube, and WordPress
Published by August 24th, 2008 in YouTube and insructional technology. 0 CommentsLast semester, Professor John Morello’s “Communication and Political Campaigns” class did something interesting with UMW Blogs. Rather than thinking of the class blog as a semester long activity for writing and reflecting (which is always good), he used it for one specific assignment. The blog provided a space where students could upload, categorize, and receive [...]
Virgil, Blabberize, and 50 Ways to Applaud CogDog
Published by August 24th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, digital storytelling and insructional technology. 1 CommentThis Summer I had the good fortune of working with professor Angela Gosetti-MurrayJohn and the students of her “The Classical Tradition” course. I would like to say I came up with some original and elaborate EdTech scheme to change the world through mediated mean, but I didn’t. However, Angela did by pushing her class [...]
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