FA07 Wrapup

Creators of the Mary Washington Faculty Academy provide insight into faculty use of sophisticated, and simple, web applications to expand and transform the creation, transmission, archiving, and sharing of knowledge.

First up, Martha Burtis:


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And Gardner Campbell:


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The BGN Entrepreneur's Minute is made possible by the generous support of the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond.

UMW and the New Media Consortium

Alan Levine's presentations to the Mary Washington Faculty Academy are available through the FA07 web site and wiki. Here is his quick take on the conference.


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The BGN Entrepreneur's Minute is made possible by the generous support of the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond.

BGN Entrepreneur's Minute, May 17, 2007

Mary Washington intrapreneur Jim Groom on the work of the Teaching and Learning Technologies division, and their engagement in the Faculty Academy.


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The BGN Entrepreneur's Minute is made possible by the generous support of the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond.

Faculty Academy Day 1

The University of Mary Washington Faculty Academy is a jewel of a conference. The variety of faculty experiments, and depth of experience, in using new web applications in course delivery is exceptional. There are blog posts as well as presentation material at the Faculty Academy site.

The podcast, below, by Professor Gosetti-Murrayjohn deals with her use of web tools in a recent course in Homer that was taught in conjunction with a course on Dante. The blog for that course is The Afterlife in the Italian and Classical Traditions.

Tomorrow afternoon, Karen Stephenson will speak on Transforming Higher Education. UPDATE: Live video from the Faculty Academy here.


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The BGN Entrepreneur's Minute is made possible by the generous support of the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond.

MWU Faculty Academy

The 12th annual Mary Washington University Faculty Academy begins Wednesday, with Change and the 21st‑Century College Teacher: Deep Learning, Slow Blogging and the Tensions of Web 2.0 by Barbara Ganley of the Middlebury College Center for Teaching, Learning and Research. Today is the last day to register for this event.

The keynote talk by Dr. Stephenson of Netform will be delivered on Thursday. Alan Levine, of the New Media Consortium, will present Being There: Networks, Tweets, and Avatars on Wednesday.

The results of the NMC survey on educators in Second Life should be available in June.