Professor Melina Patterson’s course blog for Geography 331, “Race and Place in America,” has framed and examined some really fascinating issues in contemporary culture over the past 15 weeks. In particular, the course has traced the intersection of issues of race, urban development, and gentrification.
Earlier this semester the students watched and discussed a 2003 documentary [...]
If you are a UMW Blogs blogger and are getting ready to graduate or otherwise leave the University of Mary Washington there are a couple of things you should know about the options for taking your work with you.
1) The work you have done on UMW Blogs will not be deleted. It will remain up [...]
This semester, I asked the students in my Graphic Novel Class to collaborate on designing, producing, and publishing their own webcomics, after first working on a collectively authored book on webcomics. Working in small groups, they used standalone WordPress installations running ComicPress to create their comic sites, and each group used networks like Twitter and [...]
UWM’s Eco Club has recently won the “Outstanding Website” award in the Office of Student Activities and Community Services (OSACS) award ceremony. You can see their site here, and notice how they are using all sorts of loosely joined tools like Google Calendars and Flickr to make their site more user friendly, elegant, and simple. [...]
Every year the English, Linguistics, and Communication department hosts the Kemp Symposium, a two day conference that gives ELC students the opportunity to share their research with the UMW community. The event is hosted in Combs Hall and starts today at 10:00 am (Monday, April 20th). If you have a chance, be sure to drop [...]
