News releases.
Nearly 50 years after civil rights pioneer James L. Farmer Jr. organized the Freedom Rides that led to desegregated bus terminals throughout the South, the University of Mary Washington has teamed with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) to call for a commemorative U.S. postage stamp to honor the late Farmer.
Perhaps time travel is possible, after all.
It certainly seemed so yesterday at Belmont, as guests enjoyed seeing the Falmouth estate’s South Lawn restored to its appearance of long ago.
University of Mary Washington students with a penchant for the arts helped transform a downtown city street into a temporary art gallery at the first annual Fredericksburg Via Colori Festival. They were among about 75 artists who registered for the community event organized by the Fredericksburg Arts Commission.
Jennifer A. Polack-Wahl, Professor of Computer Science, and Jacob Bowman, junior Computer Science Student, iPhone/iTouch app Short Vowel Mahjong is now free on iTunes. In the last three days 109 downloads have occurred. The downloads have primarily been in the United States but they included Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, China, Hong Kong, France, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, Korea, UK, and Spain.
This app was made specifically at the request of Heather Howe a Kindergarten and First Grade teacher at Hartwood Elementary. Heather wanted a game that would reinforce short vowel recognition. Jacob and Jennifer A. Polack-Wahl brainstormed a variety of ideas and decided on a Mahjong style game. The list of words we used was approved by Heather and included approximately seven different words in each vowel (a, e, i, o, and u).
The app is for anyone who wants to help their children or students to reinforce short vowel sounds or start short vowel recognition. You do need either an iTouch or iPhone with IOS 4.0 to play the game. We want to find out how to make it better so we can aid elementary education, we are in it for the kids.
Continue to check out http://hartwood.umwblogs.org/ for more games in education. Our ice cream Math game is our next to be submitted to the app store.
The University of Mary Washington has been named to The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. UMW is one of 700 U.S. colleges and universities commended for exemplary, innovative and effective community service programs.