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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Featured Blog’
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Judges 5:27 Strikes Again
If you aren’t reading the blog Judges 5:27 you should be. Always full of great commentary and conversations on a variety of things philosophical and meta-physical.
A recent post entitled Philippians 2:2 discusses among other things people who record their mp3s and share them with the world. Some are good, some are bad, some are just [...]
Judges 5:27 Strikes Again
If you aren’t reading the blog Judges 5:27 you should be. Always full of great commentary and conversations on a variety of things philosophical and meta-physical.
A recent post entitled Philippians 2:2 discusses among other things people who record their mp3s and share them with the world. Some are good, some are bad, some are just [...]
UMW’s Digital Literary Journals
Below are the three literary journals (ECOllective, The Zephyranthes, and Spindle) that were created this semester for Claudia Emerson’s Literary Journals class. Take a look to see some of UMW’s finest creative minds at work, as well as a wealth of talent from various national and international destinations.
UMW’s Digital Literary Journals
Below are the three literary journals (ECOllective, The Zephyranthes, and Spindle) that were created this semester for Claudia Emerson’s Literary Journals class. Take a look to see some of UMW’s finest creative minds at work, as well as a wealth of talent from various national and international destinations.
History Students Honor James Farmer’s Legacy
Over the semester students from Dr. McClurken’s Digital History Seminar have been working hard to create websites researching various topics to provide people with useful information all in one space.
One group created a site about James Farmer and his legacy. Within the site there is a timeline of his life, quotes, videos and more. It [...]
History Students Honor James Farmer’s Legacy
Over the semester students from Dr. McClurken’s Digital History Seminar have been working hard to create websites researching various topics to provide people with useful information all in one space.
One group created a site about James Farmer and his legacy. Within the site there is a timeline of his life, quotes, videos and more. It [...]
Roblog’s “Storm Tossed Ship (Gonna Make it to the Ocean)”
Once again Robert Lynn, of Roblog fame, is a UMW Blogs feature. Check out his soundtrack for the conceptual art piece “Storm Tossed Ship (Gonna make it to the Ocean)” below, and also take a look at his “Statement of Intent” for this piece, which was featured at this weekend’s Art Show put on [...]
Roblog’s “Storm Tossed Ship (Gonna Make it to the Ocean)”
Once again Robert Lynn, of Roblog fame, is a UMW Blogs feature. Check out his soundtrack for the conceptual art piece “Storm Tossed Ship (Gonna make it to the Ocean)” below, and also take a look at his “Statement of Intent” for this piece, which was featured at this weekend’s Art Show put on [...]
