Category: What’s New @ UMW

News from Human Resources

Professional Development Month is January at UMW – due to the snow last week and this week, some seminars have been rescheduled to February – more information will be sent out in the next week with the new dates and times.  Please mark your calendars for the Keys for Effective Leadership, brown-bag session RESCHEDULED for […]

UMW Debate Seniors Place Third at Round Robin

University of Mary Washington Debate Team seniors Colin McElhinny (’14, Erie, Pa.) and Thomas Pacheco (’14, Baltimore, Md.) recently placed third at the Herbert L. James Round Robin held at Dartmouth College, Jan. 25 to 26.Seven schools received invitations to the prestigious round robin, based on their performance at tournaments in the fall. The invitees […]

Announcing MediaCore

The Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies is pleased to announce that it has partnered with MediaCore to run a pilot installation of their media platform. MediaCore will give members of the UMW community the ability to control and curate their own media collections. It will be more than just a “campus YouTube”.Students having their […]

UMW Domains in the News

UMW’s innovative initiative Domain of One’s Own has been receiving recognition in trade and academic publications alike. University Business, a publication for IT managers, published an article last week framing this innovative new approach to giving members of their campus the keys to the server. The author of the article for University Business, Matt Zalaznick,  talked with Tim Owens of the […]

ds106 Showcased as Model of Online, Participatory Learning

Howard Rheingold has written a case study using ds106 (UMW’s open, online version of the Computer Science Digital Storytelling course) as a model of participatory learning. The case study was published by the Connected Learning site, which is the community arm of the Digital Media Lab and Learning Research Hub at the University of California, Irvine.ds106 was […]