http://umwblogs.org A publishing platform for the Mary Washington community Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:31:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://umwblogs.org/2008/12/01/bio-blogs-an-experiment-in-mass-syndication/ 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 ... http://umwblogs.org/2008/11/21/re-imagining-the-science-poster/ 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 ... http://umwblogs.org/2008/11/09/consumerism-and-the-american-dream/ That's right, Carole Garmon is to blame for four more years, but it could be you! Looks like the folks over at Uncle Lumpy are having some fun! Whosoever you vote for tomorrow, just be sure to vote! http://umwblogs.org/2008/11/03/its-all-carole-garmons-fault/ 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 ... http://umwblogs.org/2008/10/29/clubs-and-organizations-on-umw-blogs/ 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 ... http://umwblogs.org/2008/10/16/who-is-uncle-lumpy/ http://umwblogs.org/2008/10/01/umw-obama-rally-the-video/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="466" caption="Barak Obama at Rally on UMW Campus"][/caption] 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 ... http://umwblogs.org/2008/09/29/obama-rally-at-umw/ 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 ... http://umwblogs.org/2008/09/23/digiarts-scanner-as-camera/ Professor Steve Greenlaw's Freshman Seminar dealing with Globalization is making its mark on UMW Blogs. The class as a whole is already intensely active, engaging some fascinating topics in a distributed manner through their own blogs. Between this post on the ABCs of Globalization and this image of "When old ... http://umwblogs.org/2008/09/17/globalization-a-z/