Category Archives: vtnmfss12

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 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 →

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

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 21, 2012
3:17 pm
by: Holly Jordan

Space and Place

OK, so I said I would write a MAL entry when I got back, and I will, but I haven’t had time yet. I’m in Urban Political Geography, and for class today, we had to write a 2-minute response to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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March 8, 2012
3:18 pm
by: Holly Jordan

Experiential Learning

I’m a big fan of experiential (or performative, whatever you want to call it) learning.  I was pretty involved with the Reacting to the Past program at UGA (a curriculum created by Barnard College.  I was involved in the Athens … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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February 29, 2012
8:17 pm
by: Holly Jordan

Transitions

The last nine months have been an incredibly strange period of time for me.  The transition back fully into academia following a two-year hiatus after grad school has been far harder than I ever could have imagine.  Because, completely unlike … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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February 23, 2012
2:54 pm
by: Holly Jordan

Blogging as Subversion

In all three classes I have to blog for, people are either enthusiastic towards or terrified of having to blog (with very few in between).  In part, I do think some of the terror might come from a person’s definition of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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