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Rosie the Riveter dot umw dot edu 25 Jan 2013 | 02:36 am
So, it’s been over a year since UMW has had it’s main .edu website running on WordPress. DTLT has been experimenting with the possibilities of aggregating posts from UMW Blogs into umw.edu (in fact, t...
500 Open Courses on UMW Blogs 16 Jan 2013 | 03:05 am
At the beginning of every semester I get a hankering to post something about UMW Blogs. I don’t know why, it has arrived to the point that it’s more like air than technology around campus at this poin...
Civil Rights Leader James Farmer’s UMW Lectures Online 1 Oct 2012 | 08:19 pm
More than five years ago DTLT started working with UMW’s archivist Carolyn Parsons to try and digitize James Farmer’s video lecture series recorded here at UMW in 1983. The lecture series is an awesom...
Thinklab: UMW’s Makerspace 1 Oct 2012 | 08:09 pm
As a part of UMW’s efforts to build the ThinkLab, a makerspace in the Simpson Library, Tim Owens is writing a set of posts to be featured on the Makerbot Blog. The first of these posts, Help Tim Owens...
Cellular Storytelling 16 Mar 2012 | 06:08 pm
UMW Biology professor Steve Gallik has dreamed up a very cool approach for students in his Histology lab to share and comment on what’s under the microscope. Rather than purchasing expensive camera-re...
3D Printing at UMW 14 Feb 2012 | 11:25 am
If you’ve never heard of 3D printing, don’t worry – you will. Here at UMW, Professor George Meadows and Tim Owens of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies have been spearheading an effor...
Adaptations Creates a Web of Media 27 Jan 2012 | 05:37 am
Professor Whalen’s ENGL251yy course “Adaptations” is doing big things over on their course website . This course is about analyzing works that were inspired and adapted from other works. Currently,...
First Daily Create! 20 Jan 2012 | 02:38 am
Really excited to get started on this class so I decided to plunge right in with my first Daily Create! A tongue twister..
Stop Internet Censorship 19 Jan 2012 | 06:41 am
You may notice that today, January 18, a number of high-profile sites have “gone black” to protest two bills being considered by the U.S. Congress right now. SOPA and PIPA , if passed, will cripple th...
UMW Cited as Model for Future of Networked Learning 3 Jan 2012 | 04:49 am
UMW, and UMW Blogs in particular, is being heralded in Richard Demillo’s new book Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities as a space of great educational ferment, to quote fro...
