divdiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentOpenness
is as much a function of design as it is of any set of beliefs. I said
this in the UMW Blogs Story, it will frame my opened talk/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120133122 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from webbrbr /span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentheres the post, which on a re-read is a doozy: a href=http://bit.ly/ST85R rel=nofollow target=_blankhttp://bit.ly/ST85R/a/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120139462 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=urlimg alt= Alec Couros class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/284918675/3038940741_53a7426654_o_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=screen-name title= Alec Couroscourosa/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/jimgroomjimgroom/a a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing going on there, which determines which? beliefs influence design/architecture or vice versa?/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120162147 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spana href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=urlimg alt= Alec Couros class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/284918675/3038940741_53a7426654_o_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/aspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=screen-name title= Alec Couroscourosa/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/jimgroomjimgroom/a a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing going on there, which determines which? beliefs influence design/architecture or vice versa?/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120162147 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from webbrnbsp;br/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=urlimg alt= Alec Couros class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/284918675/3038940741_53a7426654_o_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=screen-name title= Alec Couroscourosa/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/jimgroomjimgroom/a or more directly, what do you see as the relationship between the two?/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120167919 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/courosacourosa/a
I think some assumptions about openness can change as the architecture
of the web does, making the design almost as important…./spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120265579 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web a href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120167919in reply to courosa/abrbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-content…as the philosophy. And I think openness can sometimes be stepped into, kinda like shit./spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120272557 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentFor
example, UMw Blogs a was not so much premised on openes as a doctrine,
but rather as necessary extension of the application of education/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120289153 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentIn
other words, might we think of openness as a side effect of the new web
that has been rhetorically transformed it into it raison detre/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120397136 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web /span/spanbrbrdiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentThink
about the combustion engine, it changed the built environment of a
large part of the earth during the 20th century, scarring it deeply/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120422080 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentYet
the car remains one of the great icons of of freedom, liberty, and
individuality—a veritable culture machine that poeticizes the road/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120435328 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentHow
can the happenstance of design not come to inform all sorts of cultural
valences we couldnt predict, yet often privilege the verities/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120451113 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentOpenness
has become such a verity, and by extension has become as fraught for
co-option and commodification as the very road that enabled it/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120462210 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=urlimg alt= Alec Couros class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/284918675/3038940741_53a7426654_o_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=screen-name title= Alec Couroscourosa/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/jimgroomjimgroom/a
For me,my beliefs have influenced edu.design,amp; as I measure student
success attr. 2 openness,it reinforces amp; extends these beliefs/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120471751 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentHahahaha, now there are some late night tweets that no one will hear fall in the twitter forest ;)/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120474218 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/courosacourosa/a But beliefs are conditional, and they themselves become emboldened by possibilities/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120486192 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published44 minutes ago/span/a from web a href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120471751in reply to courosa/abrbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/courosacourosa/a Or even better than that, Serendipity becomes a kind of new faith system of openness, akin to Dickenss turn to coincidence/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120506937 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published42 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/courosacourosa/a
We believe that to give back is ultimately good, and will pay
forward-promotion is the reward for sharing-theres a faith system/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120544404 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published38 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentWe
built a religion on top of design principles, from that comes a
philosophy of beneficent chance, aka serendipity-it all makes sense now/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120583547 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published34 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=urlimg alt= Alec Couros class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/284918675/3038940741_53a7426654_o_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=screen-name title= Alec Couroscourosa/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/jimgroomjimgroom/a
Interesting point re:Dickens/parallels,pay forward amp;
coincidence,both values indicative of particular view of society;faith
driven/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120601043 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published32 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/courosacourosa/a Forgive my indulgence-I dont get out much, And while what I said makes no sense, I just worked out a timeless theory/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120617497 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published31 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentAnd
to push forward with this idea-how do religions themselves adjust to
the design challenges of their respective eras? How does education?/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120647621 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published27 minutes ago/span/a from webbrbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentNobody tweets like the bava, NOBODY!/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120730670 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published19 minutes ago/span/a from webnbsp; brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentHate to go, but I have a bunch of tweets to hang on my I love me wall, thanks @a href=http://twitter.com/courosacourosa/a :)/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120738649 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published18 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spana href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=urlimg alt= Alec Couros class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/284918675/3038940741_53a7426654_o_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/aba href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=screen-name title= Alec Couroscourosa/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/jimgroomjimgroom/a Its always a pleasure Jim./spana href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120777728 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published14 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/divbr

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Wireless has come a long way at UMW, baby …

UMW Wireless Image… but it cerainly lacks some of the “innate coolness” that characterized the aesthetics of Mary Washington wireless from ages gone by – what can I say, like any good noir will testify to, they just dressed better back then!!!
But don’t let me sway you – take a look for yourself at the picture below taken at Mary Washington College’s radio station circa the mid-1940s in 1943 (building uncertain which was located in George Washington Hall). This is just one of the thousands of images professor Pearce’s Historic Preservation class will be rummaging through over at the university archives in the Simpson library. Boy, are his students gonna have fun!

MWC 1940s radio station

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Historic Preservation in the Digital Age …

Before I offer an anatomy of Mario Bava’s oeuvre (which will be available in weekly installments each and every Tuesday), let me digress a little and discuss some other, rather different, concerns that have occupied me as of late.

One project in particular that I have been working on in my new found home at the University of Mary Washington has been the integration of instructional technology into the Historic Preservation department. In fact, this is one of those departments that was ready-made for a guy with my hopes and aspirations. The scholars in Historic Preservation collect historical and archaeological research data relevant to the mid-atlantic region (particularly the Fredericksburg area) that open up myriad questions – many dealing with the quotidian practices of slavery in this region of Virginia – for scholars to begin analyzing and interpreting.

One of the questions that faces me in my new role as an instructional technology specialist (ITS for short) is how can I begin to help this department manage and publish this research easily and efficiently for a broader online audience. Currently much of this research is languishing in the labyrinth-like network-drive systems in place, effectively robbing an entire academic audience access to a plethora of public documents detailing the essential minutia of this history-rich region of early America. In fact, this particular task of rethinking how to present the scholarly research for this particular department, ultimately begs the larger question of presenting the work of the UMW academic community at large to the virtual world.

But it may be helpful if I return to the foundation already poured and begin reframing these larger concerns within some smaller “grass roots” projects that begin to resonate with the possibilities of an academic server at UMW. In fact, DTLT is working on web-based teaching tools such as wikis, blogs, and content libraries with isolated departments through an off-site hosting service (Bluehost) that opens up a space for creativity, discovery and potential (see the smoothelephant blog for more details). Nonetheless, this temporary hosting solution will not solve the long term instructional goals of a liberal arts educational environment that truly needs to bring its research, teaching, and learning possibilities online for its various departments to help ensure the future health of its academic community.

With this in mind, my next few blogs will begin to chronicle some really exciting and enjoyable efforts my colleagues and I are taking in this direction – keeping in mind, of course, that all roads lead back to Mario Bava!

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Enter stage left …

Welcome to (a “b” blog) dedicated to the Italian b-movie maestro Mario Bava amongst many other loosely connected threads …

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