Clik here to view.
A Month on my RSS Drip
My Tiny Tiny RSS installation. As part of the Domain of One’s Own Faculty Initiative this spring, I began to explore the world of RSS feeds. Perhaps my favorite part of the DoOOFI was its focus on...
View ArticleWhat I learned from the Domain of One’s Own program
I’ve really enjoyed the Domain of One’s Own program. I’ve met new colleagues from other departments outside of the College of Business, I’ve learned about the importance of having a digital identity,...
View ArticleFemale Demographics in the News
The Wall Street Journal has recently published two interesting articles regarding female demographics. One had to do with women who decide to be full-time homemakers. 29% of all mothers with children...
View ArticleStartup May Disrupt Makeup Industry
Most brilliant ideas look obvious in hindsight. Grace Choi had such an idea when she realized 3D printing technology could be applied to makeup. She is working on Mink, a product that may greatly...
View ArticleVirginia May Have to Offer In-State Tuition to All US Students
According to today’s Free Lance-Star, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has unilaterally decided that illegal immigrants who live in Virginia must be given in-state tuition rates at all state...
View ArticleQuality Differences between Online Video Providers
The Wall Street Journal recently published an excellent article by Joshua Fruhlinger comparing the quality of online video options. If you are interested in A/V (audio/video) quality, Fruhlinger does...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reflections on #SHEAR14
The analog program cover. I just returned home from my most digitally enhanced annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) yet, so it only makes sense that I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beautiful Day at UMW
On my way back to the office after my last class yesterday, my eye was drawn to one of our young students who really understands how to enjoy college. She was gracious enough to allow me to take a...
View ArticleI Knew This Day Would Come
Robert Morris University created sixty (yes, 60) scholarships for a team video game, League of Legends. This was brilliant and I am certain RMU will not be the last university to create scholarships...
View ArticleDisenfranchised by the Bureaucracies of Virginia
When I moved to Virginia last year, I registered to vote at the DMV when I got my license. They gave me a form, I completed it front of them, and they told me that was all I needed to register. The...
View ArticlePromises Matter – Humorous Comparative Advertising
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield is using humor to make a serious point amongst those shopping for health care insurance in their territory. Many families have a vital need for health insurance....
View ArticleWatch Out Walmart!
Pretend you are a marketing executive at WalMart. Amazon has been growing very rapidly, in large part because they don’t have to collect sales tax and you do. However, as Amazon added more...
View ArticleGlobal Alarmists Predict Meltdown, Get Stuck in Ice
When I was growing up, alarmists were talking about the coming global ice age. Obviously that never came to pass and the experience has left me skeptical about dramatic claims. Over the last two...
View ArticleHello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Quotidianness of Digital Identity
Woodville’s Charge of the Light Brigade (courtesy of Wikipedia), another famous exercise in futility. This week I have been thinking about digital identity as a process, an insight that emerged from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! I”m going to keep typing some text.
View ArticleThoughts on Digital Identities
I am blessed to be part of an institution which truly values independent thought about how to use modern technologies. Most of us take the internet for granted, a testament to human adaptability...
View ArticleThe benefits of sharing information
It seems like the authors believe that privacy is paramount and that sharing personal information is a bad thing. The authors comment that we sell our personal information for discounted products and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Virtue of Deadlines
Time waits for no man. Today I discovered another virtue of the Faculty Initiative on Digital Identity: it provides deadlines. This is a truth I have long understood about writing, about the academy,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Teaching is About Relationships
Rural school near Milton, North Dakota, 1913. Courtesy of Fred Hultstrand History in Pictures Collection, NDIRS-NDSU, Fargo. This week’s readings were all about using technology to open up teaching...
View ArticleChanges in Economic Environment
In my Marketing Principles class, I teach my students that the economic environment is one of the uncontrollable variables that businesses must monitor and – to the extent they can – manage their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Twitter as an Academic Tool
Is it a siren song that I sing? This week’s assignment for the Domain of One’s Own Faculty Initiative is to explore online scholarly communities. I spent some time racking my brain trying to think up...
View ArticleGood learners make good teachers
When I was working in industry before I decided to pursue a Ph.D., a good friend of mine sarcastically told me that I would make a good teacher because I like to talk about things that no one else...
View ArticleThoughts and Findings on Minimum Wage
I was asked to write a column about the minimum wage for The Free Lance-Star. It appeared in yesterday’s paper, and I thought I’d post it here as well. The column is virtually identical, but I took...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Making a Collaborative Reading Notes Wiki
Screen shot of the wiki in progress; click to enlarge. This semester I am experimenting with using MediaWiki as a platform for the students in my History of Manhood in the US course to build a...
View ArticleSolid Advice for Philanthropists
Too many people want to spend your money. Don’t let them. James Piereson wrote a great column urging innovators not to succumb to the urgings of people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, state and...
View ArticleProudly Borrowed From Others
One of the many benefits of participating in UMW’s Domain of One’s Own project is the interaction generated between an expert from the Division of Teaching and Learning Technology and other colleagues....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Twitter gets me excited
One of the first tweets I received after I signed up for my brand-new twitter account @SurupaG was one from the Public Diplomacy division of India’s Ministry of External Affairs. Very helpfully, it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Analog Day, Digital Day
Virginia Snowpocalypse 2014: digital humanities or analog humanities? This week’s assignment to explore “personal learning networks” through social media came at an auspicious time. Unlike Jason and...
View ArticleI already have a PLN? And it works!
As I began reading this week’s material on building Personal Learning Networks (PLN), I realized that I was using PLNs all along and what happened this week in my research serves as a great example of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Crowdsoucing Project: Bad Historical Websites
What a terrible website! (Just kidding. Thanks, Geocities-izer!) On Wednesday, I will be leading a discussion in my undergraduate History Practicum seminar about learning to distinguish between...
View ArticleThe Importance of Critical Mass
During yesterday’s domain of one’s own class, I started thinking about network technologies. Network technologies increase in utility as more people and more people use them; that is, the benefits of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Accidental Digital Scholar
A chart by Leah Tams that shows the changing proportion of one-off and serial guidebooks across the first half of the nineteenth century Reading through the Weller piece for this weeks’ DoOO...
View ArticleHas “Google” changed us? Can’t say yet.
This week, a tweet from Jim Groom led me to Sue Fernsebner’s blog on digital scholarship and got me thinking. What exactly is digital scholarship? I hadn’t yet started reading this week’s articles....
View ArticleThe pragmatic importance of a good theory
In “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”, Chris Anderson argues that theory may be irrelevant in a world of big data: “This is a world where massive amounts of data...
View ArticleIs Grounded Theory an Option with Big Data?
This week’s readings really harp on the importance of theory and the scientific method. While I agree with the authors for the most part, I’m wondering if theory is always necessary. Perhaps there are...
View ArticleSite Update
Hard to believe that my cohort’s domain training is almost complete. It has been a very worthwhile experience and provided time for me to consider how I want to use my site. While I expect this will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Utopianism and Media, Then and Now
The technology of media utopianism, 1560s-style. This week’s readings on the future of the internet seem deeply steeped in the utopianism of internet culture. This utopianism has always struck me as...
View ArticleTechnology and the Future of Higher Education
As part of UMW’s Domain of One’s Own initiative, I have been participating in weekly talks and readings about internet tools, what digital learning means for scholarship, and how it can and will impact...
View ArticleLinkedIn: Opportunity to Improve
Linda Clevenger is hosting a LinkedIn Seminar in 412 Lee Hall from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM on April 3. LinkedIn is a wonderful business tool and I recommend you take advantage of this opportunity. Bring...
View Article
