An excellent example is the “Bio Tech Rap” song titled “Transformation” performed by the Notorious GFP which was linked to by a student in order to illustrate the process of transforming DNA. The ways in which students are re-framing and performing these complex biological concepts within a pop culture context is fascinating stuff. Also, don’t miss the bio jokes, here is my favorite.

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 as a UMW Blog. I think he used Glogster to some great effect—don’t you? I really dig the design and aesthetics of his work. Imagine that, a web-based science poster that isn’t a progeny of PowerPoint and actually has some character and sass! You can see the full screen version of Justin’s work here.

To explore more tools like Glogster take a look at Alan Levin’s incredible resource “50 Ways to Tell a Digital Story.”

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 personal wish list. I find this a fascinating experiment wherein a class openly inhabits the very space that they are critically examining. Who says personal happiness can’t be equated with the critical examination of purchasing material possessions? Check out their course blog, and do some virtual window shopping.

Whosoever you vote for tomorrow, just be sure to vote!

So, why not aggregate all the announcements into one space and make things easy for the community to discover, view, and subscribe to? Well, thanks to the wonders of RSS and a WordPress spam plugin it’s a cinch. Check out the UMW Clubs and Organizations blog, which features the latest posts from contributing clubs and organizations at UMW, along with a list of the contributing groups. Additionally, if any club or organization wants to add their site (which can be hosted on UMW Blogs or any other service with a feed), it’s a simple form to fill out to get their announcements syndicated into this site.

Barak Obama at Rally on UMW Campus

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.

You can use the scanner as a camera!!! Crazy? Maybe…

Art professor Rosemary Jesionowski’s students in her Digital Approaches to Art course just completed their first project titled “Scanograms,” in which they created compositions using images captured on a scanner. Each student scanned five items and then, using Adobe Photoshop, cut out the objects and rearranged them into a new composition. Pretty cool stuff, and quite beautiful too!

A: all, advances

When Old Meets New

B: behind, buisness, balance

C: culture, creation, connections, competition, computers, crowded, convergence

D: destruction

E: earth, economy

F: flat

G: government, green revolution

H: hope, homogenization

I: ideas, internet, involvement, inevitable

J: junction

K: knowledge

L: learning

M: money

N: new

O: open, outsourcing

P: people, pollution, population

Q:

R: revolution, rapid

S: sharing, spreading

T: technology, trade, “Third World”, trust

U: universal, united, unprotected

V:

W: worldwide

X:

Y: yearning

Z: