Well, UMW Blogs is now on a dedicated server after a year of shared hosting to run over a thousand blogs. We are quickly approaching the 1500 blogs mark, and the database is 1.1 gigs with over 11,000 tables. Seems that once it starts approaching 5 or 6 gigs it might be time to [...]
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UMW Blogs: Over 1 Billion Characters Served
Published by July 3rd, 2008 in UMW Blogs, dtlt, fa08, faculty academy and umwfa08. 3 CommentsFaculty Academy Videos, or the beauty of our New Media Specialist
Published by May 18th, 2008 in fa08, faculty academy and umwfa08. 4 CommentsFaculty Academy posts will be streaming in irregularly as I grok this year’s amazing event. So much to say, but for the time being I’ll be relatively brief. This year’s conference was about many things, pushing the boundaries, going boldly, and refusing fear as an alternative. One thing from this year’s Faculty [...]
Night of the Living Republicans
Published by May 14th, 2008 in fa08, faculty academy and prologue. 2 CommentsAnand Rao put together this fun JibJab mashup as an added bonus for the lunch festivities. The main event was Faculty Academy’s first annual Deck Wars —which was a blast and has officially crowned its first annual champion: Jeff McClurken, video forthcoming .
Click on image above for the JibJab
Tiltfactor
Published by May 14th, 2008 in fa08, faculty academy, prologue and video games. 0 CommentsDr. Janet Murray’s unbelievably intelligent and thought-provoking talk, “Inventing the Medium: Learning and Symbolic Expression from Knucklebones and Senet to Second Life and Spore,” examined the historical role of games and game play upon the evolution of humanity, communication, and representation (read the abstract here and video will be forthcoming). Immensely interesting stuff that [...]
The University of Mary Washington’s 13th Faculty Academy is officially on the books for May 13th & 14th. We yet again have a quite impressive line-up of invited guests including Dr. Janet Murray (of Hamlet on the Holodeck fame), Gene Roche (the inspiration for Gardner’s BlueHost experiment is “coming home”), and finally God’s biggest Red [...]
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