The fifth edition of “Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web,” co-authored by Ernest Ackermann, professor of computer science, and Karen Hartman, a former UMW staff member, has been published recently. The first edition of “Searching and Researching” was published in 1997, when Hartman was a reference librarian in the Simpson Library. She currently holds a position in the U.S. State Department. This edition extends the focus on formulating search strategies, understanding how to form search expressions, evaluating information, and citing resources to the social and other technologies often associated with the term Web 2.0.
Michael McCarthy
Michael McCarthy, a visiting instructor in the English department, has had his first poems accepted for publication. Poetry East, described by the American Library Association as “one of the best current journals of poetry,” will publish four of his poems in its fall issue. They are titled “On My Birth Certificate,” “Etch a Sketch,” “Enchanted,” and “Spiral Staircase.”
Andy Rush
DTLT New Media Specialist Andy Rush presented “This Old New Media Center” at the 2010 NMC Summer Conference. Fashioned after the PBS television program “This Old House,” the presentation highlighted using new media tools in a Do-It-Yourself way. Andy demonstrated how to use a set of inexpensive tools to capture and stream a live presentation. He also talked about the future of video on the web, in the form of HTML5, discussed a toolkit that everyone using new media should have, and highlighted the Digital Media Cookbook site that provides new media recipes for managing, creating, and producing digital media.
Link to presentation page:
http://digitalmediacookbook.com/nmc-2010/
If you’re interested in learning more about ways to incorporate new media into your classroom or courses, feel free to contact Andy.
Warren Rochelle
Professor of English Warren Rochelle has published his third novel, The Called. Find out about upcoming readings and read reviews at http://warrenrochelle.com.
Rochelle was interviewed about The Called on WTVR’s “Virginia This Morning” program in October.