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Damn kids these days…

Published by Reverend July 2nd, 2008 in insructional technology. 9 Comments

One of the greatest plagues of the educational blogosphere is the whole idea of labeling generations of learners in these pre-fabricated categories of millennials, digital natives, immigrants, NetGens, or what have you. Now I have no more evidence that these terms are harmful, as the innumerable people who insist on using them have that [...]

This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 2

Published by Reverend May 8th, 2008 in e-portfolios. 11 Comments

So, in an attempt to galvanize my mania to its most chaotically productive for Faculty Academy 2008, I’ll go on with this e-portfolio madness, as promised. However, the comments on part 1 are already making me wonder whether this post shouldn’t be written by D’Arcy, Chris, Phaedral, or Cole (or perhaps all of them)?
That [...]

The Spore Collective Manifesto

Published by Reverend February 27th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, art and insructional technology. 1 Comment

Image courtesy of tonx.

Over at the Not For Nothing blog by Kaitlin Butler, a UMW Art major, there is a wild post about The Spore Collective Manifesto that her sculpture class has framed as a way for experimenting more radically with their artwork. Here is how she describes this manifesto:
The Spore Collective Manifesto, now featured [...]

Unpublished Sylvia Plath poem brought to you by an undergraduate blog at UMW?!

Published by Reverend March 29th, 2007 in wordpress multi-user. 6 Comments

Ok, I’m gonna take a different tact from the RIAA’s methods of dealing with college students, rather then threatening suit and certain incrimination -I will celebrate the unbelievably cool work that has been going on here at UMW. Amanda Rutstein has been blogging an independent study on Sylvia Plath that she is doing with [...]

If you build it, they will come …

Published by Reverend February 26th, 2006 in insructional technology. 1 Comment

While I hated the film Field of Dreams (almost as much as I hate the acting persona of Kevin Costner), I will shamelessly utilize an oft abused quote from that film. After speaking with Amanda McCuskey (a sophomore at UMW, and one of the University’s finest), I was made aware of some online communities [...]