YouTube – Campus Voices: Forging an honest dialogue Susan Evans pointed me in the direction of this student produced-video on the situation at William and Mary campus. I think it’s a very effective piece of student work that captures a much better sense of what’s actually happening on campus than what I’ve seen in the…
Month: February 2008
Harvard Research to Be Free Online
Harvard Research to Be Free Online – New York Times The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard has voted to create a free digital repository that would include articles and monographs that previously would have been restricted to scholarly journals that charge extraordinarily high prices to very small readerships. The move was described as…
The Rules of Engagement: Socializing College Students for the New Century
Tomorrow’s Professor Blog: 844. The Rules of Engagement: Socializing College Students for the New Century One of the few listservs that I still subscribe to is the Tomorrows-Professor Mailing List, The TP Mailing List seeks to “foster a diverse, world-wide teaching and learning ecology” and goes out to over 25,000 subscribers at over 600 institutions…
Now I Know: Why Humanists Read Their Papers
Why Humanists Read Their Papers I’d always wondered about this. Some years ago, I was invited by one of my colleagues to attend an American Studies conference on campus. When I went to his paper session, I was aghast–here was this talented, enthusiastic, master-of-multiple-technologies standing at the lectern, head bowed, reading a paper out loud….
Students Aren’t Fish
Splash Frown Town Evasion One theme that I keep finding myself returning to this semester is the need for a better understanding of how students make sense of their college experience. At ELI I had a chance to meet up a couple of times with Serena Epstein, a junior at Mary Washington, who has written…