It’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 [...]
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Claudia Emerson: Poet Laureate of Virginia
Published by August 28th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 1 CommentWPMu “3-in-1″ Widget: Tags, Recent Posts, and Archives
Published by August 18th, 2008 in wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 5 CommentsI already mentioned that Donncha’s Sitewide Tags plugin was going to make a whole lot of things much, much easier. Well, DSader wrapped all the awesomeness into one bitchin’ plugin for WPMu: Sitewide “three-in-one” Multi Widget Panel. I discovered it through James Farmer’s WPMU.org (already proving an invaluable resource) and I just had to test [...]
Mashups, Italian Style!
Published by April 30th, 2008 in Italy, YouTube, fun, insructional technology, mashup, movies and video. 4 CommentsWell, Antonella Dalla Torre’s Italian 202 class had its first annual La Mattina degli Oscar (The Morning of the Oscars), and it was quite a special event. Good food, everyone well-dressed, and the culture was first rate, now that’s Italian! The occasion was a celebration of the recent work this class put into creating [...]
Marking Digital History at UMW
Published by April 26th, 2008 in James Farmer, UMW Blogs, civil rights, google, insructional technology, maps, museums, open education and umw centennial. 3 CommentsJeff McClurken’s Adventure’s in Digital History seminar is (or is it “was” now?) a pretty amazing thing. The driving logic of the course was that four distinct projects, each dealing with a unique facet of local history, were be framed for the world-at-large as online digital resources. This is a quite ambitious goal, and [...]
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 [...]
Studio Art at UMW
Published by December 5th, 2007 in UMW Blogs, art, images and pop culture. 0 CommentsI had the privilege and the pleasure to be a panelist at the 5th annual Professional Practices in Studio Art Presentation on Monday evening. The work Carol Garmon’s students are doing is nothing short of amazing. I have to admit that I was a little nervous coming into the evening because I thought I might [...]
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