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Magnetic Movie

Posted on November 23, 2008 by Reverend

I will be posting at length about WordCampEd soon (which was a great event), but I want to throw a link to an absolutely amazing video I saw this afternoon at the Hirshhorn Museum called Magnetic Movie, created by Ruth Jarman … Continue reading →

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Re-imagining the Science Poster

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Reverend

I have been moonlighting around campus this semester as a Dog, CogDog, introducing students and faculty to Alan’s 50 Ways to Tell a Digital Story.  Well, there have been a number of good projects that I promise I will add … Continue reading →

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Am I wrong? AM I WRONG?!

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Reverend

I have recently posted about a WordPress education email list I joined and was pretty excited about. Well, less than two weeks later I am a bit confused by what exactly Automattic is thinking with this list. It’s moderated by … Continue reading →

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Blogging WordPress as a CMS

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Reverend

Martha Burtis is back in action at UMW, and she returns to us with a project that I am following with great anticipation: blogging WordPress as a CMS. As she notes in her introductory post on the topic: It often … Continue reading →

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A Song for our Times

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Reverend

Image Credit: “Sometimes pictures just compose themselves” by phxpma. Re-visiting my overflowing WFMU feed is always a pleasure, and last night I actually spent some time listening to The J’s with Jamie’s “Hey, Look Us Over!”, and while I wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Punk ‘n’ Pie

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Reverend

Hats off to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Cinematèk once again for their upcoming Punk ‘n’ Pie film series, which looks to be an amazing retrospective focusing predominantly on the UK Punk/New Wave scene (a majority of them I haven’t … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs Support Vidoes Now Embeddable

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Reverend

A couple of months ago I promised I would take the flash videos (published as .swf files) and upload them to Blip.tv so that others could use them freely and embed them elsewhere at will.  I finally got around to … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs loves Akismet

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Reverend

After reading this post by D’Arcy about how easy and free it is to get Akismet up and running for WordPress Multi-User, I finally decided to take the plunge and replace the developmentally languishing Spam Karma 2 with Akismet–I’ll miss … Continue reading →

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BlackBoard is such an open stud

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Reverend

This is classic, and it’s so bad it’s almost good, which is what scares me about it.  But the misinformation campaign being run here about openness is dangerous, and the portrayal of  Bb NG as “a hip stud” who gets … Continue reading →

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Reflections on EDUCAUSE

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Reverend

I actually parachuted in and out of EDUCAUSE, and I was my usual strange self at conferences. I really can’t seem to bring it together when I go to these things, my head space gets a bit confused and I … Continue reading →

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