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 [...]
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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 [...]
It’s all Carole Garmon’s fault!!!
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!
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.
Digiarts: Scanner as Camera
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 [...]
Globalization A-Z
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 meets new” (both of which [...]
The Political Cartoons of Herblock
Robert “Roblog” Lynn has an excellent post about the art and career of political cartoonist Herbert Block. As is often the case, I am always learning fascinating stuff from the magic that is UMW Blogs, and the Roblog is consistently an excellent source of both information and inspiration. He’ll be spending this year thinking about [...]
Risky Mermaid
Serena Epstein produced a magical mashup re-contextualizing The Little Mermaid by setting it to the soundtrack of the Risky Business trailer for professor Anand Rao’s Visual Rhetoric course. Behold the magic of this brilliant mashup; Ariel is framed in a whole new light!
Prof. Steve Gallik’s Online Laboratory Suite
Professor Steve Gallik has been developing an Online Laboratory Suite for his Biology labs over the last couple of years. It is an online application that guides students through laboratory experiments programmatically, making calculations and allowing them a space to record and store their data on the web. To get a sense of how it [...]
