It was recently announced by Mary Washington’s new president that the next academic year (2009/2010) will be “The Year of the Digital Campus” at UMW. While I think we are uniquely positioned to make the most of this idea, I also wonder what it means exactly. But, in all fairness, I don’t think anyone is [...]
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A domain of one’s own
Published by November 29th, 2008 in Uncategorized and digital identity. 14 CommentsSometimes I miss the classroom, but I find that is becoming less and less a concern these days. I’m beginning to realize more and more that you teach from where you are, and I’m deep in the blog right now. I received the following note today, and it went a long way towards confirming these [...]
I’ve never had as much fun delivering a presentation as I did last night while co-presenting “The Revolution Will be Syndicated” with Tom Woodward in Second Life for NMC’s Rock the Academy conference. It was nothing short of a blast, and our guiding logic while preparing this “talk” was to make it fun and use [...]
Out of Print: Building a Digital Environment for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship
Published by October 24th, 2008 in WordPress, insructional technology, open education, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 1 CommentD’Arcy Norman and I co-presented at the Open Education Conference last year, and I recently had the opportunity to re-watch our talk thanks to the good folks at COSL that both recorded the sessions and put them up on Google video.
The presentation was an important one for me in retrospect, because of its pure and [...]
Now this is a “Read” poster I can get behind! See another one featuring Tupac here. Both thanks to the creative genius of Tom Woodward at the Bionic Teaching blog.
Anyone know the lyrics that come immediately before this line?
I have set up a WordPress Multi-User test of CommentPress, a theme brought to you by the fine folks at The Future of the Book (in particular Bob Stein, Jessie Wilbur, and Eddie Tejada). This theme is absolutely sick (a good thing, mind you) because it allows you to literally publish a book online [...]
Some of my most treasured “possessions” are the film programs I have collected from innumerable film outings over the years. I have a modest collection of stuff spread across several boxes in my attic, and I do love to steal away for a while and look through these memories that encapsulate so many of my [...]
Tales from the Teaching Crypt: American Film Genres syllabus from Summer 2000
Published by June 12th, 2007 in film, film noir, films and movies. 10 CommentsFrom another lifetime, here is class I taught at SUNY Old Westbury that was a total blast. A recent post on Film Noirs inspired me to start putting my old syllabi on bavawiki in order to begin archiving and making available some of the work I have done over the last ten years (has [...]
Title Page of The Vial Poured Out Upon the Sea, from Daniel E. Williams’s Pillars of Salt: An Anthology of Early American Criminal Narratives.
The topics of pirates and piracy has been on my mind a lot as of late. In the Early American Criminal Narratives class I have been talking about at length [...]
…they might say something like this:
This is a current snapshot of the ever changing category cloud for the Early American Crime Narratives class I have been teaching and experimenting with this Summer session. Read about the conception of this category tag project here, a rare success in this classroom with this approach here, and a [...]
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