One advantage of having a blog is that you can use it to brag about your students. Today I want to brag about a PhD student I’ve been working with for the past four years, Orli Fridman, who successfully defended her dissertation today. From now on we have to call her Dr. Fridman. Of course…
Teachers and their blogs
Teachers around the country are getting into the blogging act. This story from the Washington Post details some of the ways that they are using blogs and, not surprisingly, much of their use of the technology has been like the rest of the world’s–the keep some sort of online diary. Reading between the lines of…
Collecting the History of A Big Surprise (cont’d)
The persistent flogging of the GMU Basketball Digital Memory Bank is starting to pay off. As of 6:00 pm today (a little more than 24 hours since the site went live), the site has logged over 1,400 unique visitors and more than 40,000 hits. One hundred digital objects have already been deposited in this collect-history-as-it’s-happening…
Collecting the History of A Big Surprise (cont’d)
The George Mason Basketball Digital Memory Bank has now achieved lift off. Since the site officially went live several hours ago, visitors have begun to pour in and contributions to the memory bank have begun. One thing we’ve learning in all of our projects is how essential it is that we flog the hell out…