This is cross-posted from The Spinning Wheel blog, maintained by UMW Libraries Special Collections and University Archives. In celebration of Preservation Week, UMW Libraries is excited to announce the release of a new digital preservation and access platform, Special Collections and University Archives: Digital Collections, powered by Preservica. Simpson Library has been providing access to...Continue Reading
Today we welcome guest blogger Peter Catlin. Peter is a reference librarian at UMW’s Simpson Library, and he also serves as the library’s coordinator of first-year programs. Hello blog readers! I’m here today on behalf of the UMW Libraries to tell you about a new service we’re launching, called the UMW Assignment Bank. “What is...Continue Reading
The opportunity to have Caulfield here on campus to talk to the students and faculty about these issues in a tremendous opportunity to help all of our thinking and teaching and learning about digital fluency, digital polarization, and how we all need to slow down online.Continue Reading
Navigating copyright for class materials can be difficult, especially where digital media is concerned. Here are some guiding principles for legally using digital media in educational settings.Continue Reading
Educators are increasingly putting open licences on their content, making it legal to copy, redistribute, even remix that content for other purposes. But it's not always easy to remix that content. With that in mind, I've made a few significant updates to Peasy, an open-by-default web publishing platform. These updates make it even easier to...Continue Reading
Estimates of annual textbook costs range from $500 to more than $1000 per student. Note the disconnect between the price per book and the spending per student.Continue Reading
Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) is not just a platform. It’s a philosophy. A history, then, can not just account for the development of the technologies but must also account for the thinking that brought the project to life.Continue Reading
Want to build a website but find a blank canvas intimidating? Found a great "open" resource that's legal, but really difficult, to copy? Have a new Domain of Your Own but don't know how to get started? For the past few weeks, I've been working on a new web app called Peasy (as in "easy...Continue Reading
I’ve spent some time talking about open pedagogy at several universities this Spring, and in each of those presentations and workshops, I have usually mentioned The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, an OER anthology that my students and I produced last year for an American literature survey course I taught. When I talk about...Continue Reading
