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The W&M-China Initiative: Digital Learning in Cross-Cultural Pedagogy
Skyping between W&M and Beijing Normal University students. Skype is an excellent digital tool for promoting cross-cultural learning. This is a guest post by Emily Wilcox, Visiting Assistant...
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Mozilla Webmaker Part 1: Easily Teach (and Learn) Web Skills
Image courtesy of Flickr user Joe Mabel. Mozilla, the software community that produces free Web browser Firefox, has a useful new website, Mozilla Webmaker. It has a collection of tools and resources,...
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Mozilla Webmaker Part 2: Web Tools
Mozilla, the software community that produces free Web browser Firefox has a pretty cool new(ish) website, Mozilla Webmaker. In the last post in this series on Mozilla Webmaker, I went over some...
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Mozilla Webmaker Part 3: Making and Using Web Projects
Some of the projects available on Mozilla Webmaker. Mozilla, the software community that produces free Web browser Firefox has a pretty cool new(ish) website, Mozilla Webmaker. It has a collection of...
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Basic Skills for the Information Age: Ideas from the Community College Circuit
In April, I attended the Council for the Study of Community Colleges’ annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Part of my work there involved co-organizing a roundtable session around the idea of digital...
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Project Ideas for Google Maps and the Humanities
Google Maps’s newest iteration attempts to combine qualitative and quantitative data into easy to build and manipulate maps. While faculty and students in the sciences and social sciences have been...
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More on Web-Friendly Mapping: Google Maps vs. Google Sheets
In my last post I discussed some of the new features and cool possibilities of Google Maps for the humanities at the College. After writing that post, I’ve been obsessing just a bit on the various...
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Opening up the Web for Students and Faculty
Image courtesy of Jim Groom’s website. Last fall, our neighbors just two and a half hours to the north at the University of Mary Washington launched an eye-opening program for their students, faculty,...
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How to Make a GIF Part 1, Using Still Images
GIFs are an ubiquitous part of today’s Internet, and I know that I myself can’t remember seeing one for the first time. But, just in case you don’t know what one is, it’s an image format (like JPEG)...
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How to Make an Academic GIF from Video
Last time I wrote about how to make a GIF using still images, and related some reasons why you might want to learn how to make GIFs as an academic. Today I’ll teach you how to make a GIF using video,...
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