Monthly Archives: February 2013

What about the UMW Students?!

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Reverend

Lest I forget after paying all sorts of love to the UMW faculty for the emergence of the digital at UMW in my last post that there’s another part to this whole equation: the students! I always find myself in … Continue reading →

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It Takes a Liberal Arts Village to Raise a Digital Campus

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Reverend

UMW alum-cum-journalist Lindley Estes wrote an article today in the local Fredericksburg paper, The Free-Lance Star, about the brave new digital world emerging at UMW (forgive them the ads and video commercials, online publishing has confounded more than a few newspapers). It’s pretty cool … Continue reading →

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Rambo Kills

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Reverend

The other day in our Domain of One’s Own faculty initaitive cohort we were talking about embedding media in a blog, and one of the faculty pointed us to the site infogr.am, and while looking for an example to embed … Continue reading →

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The Ice Man Killeth or, Dr Oblivion….is that you?

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Reverend

The great George Meadows sent the image below of a book about a cold-blooded killer who lived a double life as a suburban New Jersey family man. Crazy story, from what I could glean, having killed over 100 people during … Continue reading →

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Digital, Networked, Open

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Reverend

As part of the faculty initiative around Domain of One’s Own at UMW, there are a whole cadre of faculty blogging about there process as well as reflecting on their reading of Martin Weller‘s The Digital Scholar. We are in the third … Continue reading →

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Coming Fall 2013: True Crime!

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Reverend

Update: Please note this course syllabus has been modified significantly. You can find the most recent version here. (8/24/13) I’ve spent a fair amount of time proclaiming how awesome Paul Bond during last semester’s Hardboiled Freshman Seminar. But proclamations are one thing, … Continue reading →

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Unclogging the bava

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Reverend

There have been some plumbing issues on the bava as of late 🙂 Thanks to Tom Woodward for these GIF infomericals which builds on Michael Branson Smith’s homegrown collection and reminds me of what Brian Lamb said in our GIF … Continue reading →

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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the GIF

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Reverend

Before I say anything else, just take a moment to see how brilliant Andrew Forgrave is at GIFFing, his recent commentary on the Animated GIF Variety Show Tom Woodward, Michael Branson Smith, Brian Lamb, Zack Dowell, and I presented last … Continue reading →

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Domain of One’s Own Faculty Initiative

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Reverend

I’ve been crazy this last month, and the proof is in the blog archive pudding: only eighteen god damned blog posts for January. I hope February proves to be a bit easier on the bava, but, with that said, January … Continue reading →

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