Category Archives: gedivts12

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 →

Posted in Blogging, gedivts12, iPad, lebanon, logitech, LSF2012, NCUSAR, vtnmfss12

May 1, 2012
6:25 pm
by: msds

Beware online “filter bubbles”

There are few people nowadays in the world that do not know what internet, social media and search engines are. In addition to those who argue that some of these engines or making us stupid, some believe that these engines … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in gedivts12, PFP 2012

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 →

Posted in gedivts12, pfps2012, professional life

April 29, 2012
11:19 pm
by: msds

Sharing Cambridge Ideas

Cambridge Nights is a very interesting site that tries to “share bits and pieces of Cambridge with the rest   of the world” by interviewing the distinguished professors of different fields in universities within Cambridge, MA. The very latest one is an … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in gedivts12, PFP 2012

April 28, 2012
10:36 pm
by: msds

Is College Worth It?

While working on the scholarly essay on the value of higher education I found that the debates on if the college education worth the cost and time is significantly increasing.  There are many blog postings and writing on this topic and one was published just today … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in gedivts12, PFP 2012

April 23, 2012
3:39 pm
by: hatshepsut

Open Sesame

Greetings all – Holly recently wrote about how scholarly journals get articles from academics (whose time is paid for by their universities and in many cases by our tax money if it is a state university) and then turn around … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Academic Publishing, gedivts12

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 →

Posted in articles, gedivts12, pfps2012, vtnmfss12

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 →

Posted in gedivts12, pfps2012, professional life, vtnmfss12

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 →

Posted in gedivts12, knowledge networks, vtnmfss12