Author Archives: Holly Jordan

August 27, 2012
4:42 pm
by: Holly Jordan

Welcome to Religion 1024

Hello all!  Welcome to our course!  Please peruse the “Getting Started with Blogging” page to get started!  Feel free to leave a comment with any questions! Continue reading →

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August 27, 2012
12:41 pm
by: Holly Jordan

Welcome to Religion 1024!

Hello all!  Welcome to our course!  Please peruse the “Getting Started with Blogging” page to get started!  Feel free to leave a comment with any questions!
Continue reading →

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May 24, 2012
10:03 pm
by: Holly Jordan

Getting Ready To Blog

I started this blog because it seemed like every class in my life last semester had some sort of requirement about it.  Now, with no assignments, I found my voice was gone.  Do I really have nothing to say? Um, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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April 30, 2012
12:57 pm
by: Holly Jordan

Being Faculty

So the first week of the semester in PFP, we had to quickly write down what we thought it meant to be a faculty member.  Looking back at it, I must have really been in a bad mood: A faculty … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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April 19, 2012
8:24 pm
by: Holly Jordan

The Price of Academic Writing

In NMFSS yesterday, Gail made this excellent point regarding scholarly articles:  “We pay you a little bit to write your article and then we pay a *lot* to the publisher to get it back!” She’s absolutely right.  Our colleges and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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April 12, 2012
1:47 am
by: Holly Jordan

Courtesy?

I like to think I’m pretty good at figuring out when I have offended people and am fairly willing to apologize immediately.  My mouth often goes faster than my brain, so this happens enough that I feel like I can … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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April 10, 2012
8:43 pm
by: Holly Jordan

Why aren’t we reading Lyotard?

For my Religion and Modernity in the West course this week, we read Jean-François Lyotard’s “A Report on Knowledge.” Let be honest and say I haven’t finished it.  I might be missing something huge. I am taking both GEDI and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in gedivts12, knowledge, new media, Pedagogy, pfps2012, vtnmfss12

April 4, 2012
8:34 pm
by: Holly Jordan

Networkin’ Knowledge

Today’s post is brought to you by 21st century Brain, sponsored in part by growing up in the 90s.  Blog posting while paying attention in class.  Go me. One of my classmates, blogo-named Nature, posted this entry a few days ago about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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March 29, 2012
10:14 pm
by: Holly Jordan

D’You Ever Wonder Why We’re Here?

Wow, pretentious title is pretentious.  But it’s an question that actually came up in my New Media Faculty-Staff Seminar. The title comes from an online web series, Red vs. Blue.  I love Red vs. Blue.  It was one of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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March 27, 2012
5:12 pm
by: Holly Jordan

Expectations for Graduate Education

Did you know there was entire page devoted to “Expectations for Graduate Education” at VT?  Until PFP last night, I had no idea. “At a Glance,” the expectations are on four main parties:  Grad Students, Faculty, Program/Department, and the Graduate … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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