Professor John Morello’s Communication 370 course (or “Communication and the 2008 Presidential Campaign”) provides a really powerful model for using a course as a video publishing platform, a space for critical media studies, as well as a forum for discussion about the election as it unfolds. Each of the students in this course created [...]
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Venice is now open!
This afternoon was the opening of the online exhibit created by the members of Professor Marjorie Och’s upper-level Art History Seminar on Venice. The semester was dedicated to researching the rich art history of the “City of Water”, and they tracked their research and discussion over the last fifteen weeks in a course space here [...]
Katabasis: A Journey through a Virtual Course Space
Professor Angela Gosetti’s course blog for her “Katabasis in Myth and Film” Freshman seminar has been one of the most fun, active and engaged spaces on UMW Blogs I have yet to see. If you don’t know what katabasis means (kinda like me before following this course), it’s from the Greek and generally means [...]
Bio Blogs, an experiment in mass syndication
Professor Michael Killian’s “The Bio Blog” is a pretty impressive endeavor that collects and categorizes the posts of over 70 students in his Introduction to Biological Concepts (Biol 121) course. Every student maintained his or her own blog and their posts were tagged according to the section they were part of, which allowed for [...]
Re-imagining the Science Poster
In Judith Parker’s Psycholinguistics course students have been asked to create scientific posters, but they were encouraged to explore new ways of presenting their work online. Justin Toney created his science poster for the class with Glogster, an online poster tool that enables linking, embedding, media, as well as re-posting it on other sites, such [...]
Consumerism and the American Dream?
Professor Krystyn Moon’s seminar on the history of consumerism in the 20th century is taking a fascinating approach to their topic. They’re not only blogging their reflections on the various texts they are reading throughout the semester, they have also created a group blog for the course wherein everyone features a product on their own [...]
Clubs and Organizations on UMW Blogs
One of the most interesting elements of UMW Blogs is the way in which things kinda happen on their own accord, and the publishing environment takes on a life of its own. For example, I track a lot of the posts and comments that go through the system, and what I have begun to recognize [...]
Who is Uncle Lumpy?
Have you seen Uncle Lumpy’s Down-Home Art Blog and Pancake Emporium? It seems to be a wild class experiment that has emerged on UMW Blogs, wherein all the authors are blogging under what seems to be personae (check out the very entertaining contributors page for a few examples). It’s a healthy mix of local art [...]
Obama Rally at UMW
Professor Anand Rao has a number of great images documenting his experience of the Obama Rally that took place on campus yesterday. Above is just one of the gems you will find in his Flickr set of 90 images.
Also, you can read other posts about the Obama Rally on UMW Blogs here.
