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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Featured Blog’
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 [...]
Vergil Speaks!
This Summer, after two millennia of silence, two students from professor Gosetti-Murrayjohn’s The Classical Tradition (a 100 level course) brought Vergil “back to life.” Jessica Eadie and Lauren Heft’s project, “War in the Aeneid“, incorporated a wide series of web-based tools to effectively integrate digital storytelling into their presentation. This site provides an excellent [...]
UMW Blogs all dressed up for the new year
UMW Blogs is featuringitself this time, for it has put on a new theme for the new academic year. Wearing the elegant theme PrimePress by Ravi Varma, thanks to the unfailing eye for great looking sites of Andy “Edu”Rush. Moreover, the custom images of Mary Washington were taken and freely shared by our very own [...]
Italy in Black and White
Emily McAlpine has some absolutely gorgeous images of Florence, Italy she took in glorious black and white. Just beautiful stuff.
UMW Abroad
While Serena keeps the weekly installments of images capturing the “City of Light” coming, Stephanie —another of UMW’s faithful abroad—offers up her own vision of Paris.
And if you want to read some missives from the center of European culture, you can get regular updates from Italy on Jana’s blog coming live from the masterpiece that [...]
Tracking the Housing Crisis
David Merkowitz’s Real Estate Crisis and a Little American Studies blog traces news about the current housing crisis in the US on a regular basis. It’s a personal favorite because I can get a ton of information about the spiraling effects of greed and consumption gone awry from one RSS feed! The format [...]
Miltonauts Disover Paradise Lost
Dr. Gardner Campbell will be hosting the twelfth and final Paradise Lost all-night readathon at UMW this Friday, July 11th. For more details and directions click here. And while we are on the subject of professor Campbell and Milton, take a look at his Summer seminar’s course blog—brilliantly titled Attack of the Summer Miltonauts—that [...]
Summer in Paris
One of UMW’s finest is currently exploring Paris, and UMW Blogs recently got wind of some of the amazing photos she has been taking on this trip. If you want to see Paris through the eyes of a master, make sure to regularly check out highlights on her blog, or take a look at [...]
ITEC 521
Teresa Coffman’s ITEC 521 course is doing some exciting things with the small pieces loosely joined approach to instructional technologies. The class has been exploring Twitter, playing with wikis at wikispaces, collaborating on a Wikibook, and using Google Pages as eportfolios just to name a few of the ways they have been using the [...]
