Monday, June 9, 2008
University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy, May 13-14th, 2008
This presentation will examine the innumerable cultural resources available for teaching and learning online. Using the Internet Archives as one example, this presentation will demonstrate the wide array of documents, videos, music, and images that may be of interest to a wide range of disciplines for imagining the space and possibilities for digital media in the classroom. Moreover, these resources are all in the public domain, which underlines some very important questions of working in the world of culture without the ubiquitous limitations of copyright.
Video/audio forthcoming.
Monday, June 9, 2008
University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy, May 13-14th, 2008
A long, long time ago (four years this July, to be exact) UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies took a brave step into our cultural moment’s greatest frontier: teaching and learning on the wide open web. This presentation will examine the history of that bold move along with one of its particularly compelling progeny, UMW Blogs. The launch of UMW Blogs in Fall 2007 saw the creation of over 1000 blogs authored by more than 1200 UMW students, faculty, and staff. We couldn’t be more delighted by the way in which the community has adopted this new space and the activity that’s been generated in it.
Over the course of the year, UMW Blogs was used for such a wide range of purposes that calling it simply a “blogging platform” doesn’t do it justice; we like to think of it more as a web-based publishing platform for re-imagining teaching and learning technologies. This presentation will not only frame the history of this web-based evolution, but examine how the UMW community has used this space to collaborate, interact, and present their work to the worlds beyond its border, much of which will provide a context for a number of the sessions you will be hearing over the course of this conference.
Session website: http://facultyacademy.org/wiki08/page/UMW_Blogs_Begins
Co-presenters:
Gardner Campbell, UMW’s English, Linguistics, and Speech
Andy Rush, New Media Specialist, UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning
Video of session available below:
Download UMW Blogs Begins
Monday, June 9, 2008
UMW’s Faculty Academy, April 13-14th, 2008
The Long Poem seminar created an article for Wikipedia over the course of the Spring, 2008 semester as a way to frame some of their research as well as to create a collaborative document that could then be shared with the world. On the first of April this article was officially published on Wikipedia by the class, and is currently an online resource readily available to the world. The project brings up some interesting questions and issues surrounding the academy’s role in creating and shaping the content that people will be accessing on Wikipedia. Should colleges and universities be contributing to this global resource of information? What are the benefits? What are the drawbacks? Why Wikipedia?
“Welcome to the People’s Republic of Non-Programistan”
Session website with relevant links: http://facultyacademy.org/wiki08/page/Why_Wikipedia%3F
Co-Presenter: Mara Scanlon (UMW, English, Linguistics, and Communication)
Session audio forthcoming.
