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Tag Archives: experimenting
Blogfesores 2009: “Sharing is the Nature of Creation”
Mario Accepting a well-deservd award for being the OG Blogfesor Image credit: Grisrodrig’s “Mario Nuñez and Cristina Pomales” It seems like I was at Blogfesores 2009 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico two months ago, but it has only been a little … Continue reading
UMW Blogs featured in EDUCAUSE’s 7 Things for PLEs
Yesterday I noticed (thanks to tweets from Jeff McClurken and Martha Burtis) that EDUCAUSE’s “7 Things You Should Know About Personal Learning Environments” features the University of Mary Washington as one of the schools experimenting and fostering PLEs on a … Continue reading
University of Virginia and WPMu? Wahoo!
In September of 2007 Steve Stedman invited Patrick and I to UVA to talk about the work we were doing with WPMu and UMW Blogs. It was somewhat difficult to get folks to meet with us, and we really didn’t … Continue reading
Duke University’s CIT Showcase, 2009
I’ll be posting the video and some more commentary of the “Magic Trick Talk” I did last week at Duke when it’s available, although I’m a bit nervous about it because I am under the illusion the talk went well … Continue reading
Smarthistory re-imagines the textbook
Beth Harris and Steve Zucker’s smarthistory is an exciting effort to re-imagine expensive Art History textbooks as open (as in free) web-based resources—with a Creative Commons share-alike license to boot. From what I understand from the original site designer, Joe … Continue reading
An Integrated Domain
I have been thinking pretty consistently, but rather quietly about the idea of a domain of one’s own. In fact, I’m starting to read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own for several reasons, but one of them is for … Continue reading
Katabasis and “Choose Your Own Adventure” narratives
Image Credit: “Odysseus” by paral_lax It’s funny how things work online, soon after reading Alec Couros’s post “‘Choose You Own Adventure’ comes to YouTube” (which is such a brilliant use of YouTube annotations for digital storytelling), I got a message … Continue reading
UMW Lablogs: Aggregating Online Laboratory Experiments
One of the biggest experiments happening currently on UMW Blogs is Steve Gallik’s Cell Biology Lablogs. Steve is a pretty amazing guy, he has built out an entire suite of online laboratory resources wherein students can record the results of … Continue reading