December 2nd, 2008
Smith College Blogs Nominated for WPMu Awards
The Blogs hosted on Sophia have been nominated for the WPMU Awards at WPMU.org! Check out the other WPMU sites at WPMU.org & vote for your favorite.
November 12th, 2008
Sophian Editorializes
The Sophian blog recently published a Staff Editorial. Share your opinions in the comments!
October 28th, 2008
Dance!
The Smith College Dance Community blog is a great resource for dancers, with a schedule of Free Dance Classes, Calendar, and listing of Dance in the Area.
October 22nd, 2008
Family Weekend
The Office for Student Activities blog, Out and About in the Campus Center, just posted a great list of all the events happening during Family Weekend. Check it out!
September 22nd, 2008
Smithies on Smith
Sara Aboulafia ’09 hits her senior year anticipating feelings of nostalgia after she leaves, but also looking forward to life after Smith… read about her experience at Smith on studentview.
September 16th, 2008
Online Literacy
The folks over at Neilson Library have done it again… linking to a really neat article about online literacy & technology in the classroom.
In [Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind - ChronicleReview.com] the author, Mark Bauerlein writes that online reading is a very different kettle of fish from other types of reading such as reading a book. Undergrads now arrive at college having been reading online all their life and there is little we can do to change how they do that. So to try to have a liberal arts class try to incorporate online reading for the purposes of learning course content is problematical.
September 9th, 2008
Quick Tip from Smith Mac User
Did you know that you can search Wikipedia from your Mac’s Dictionary? Smith Mac User explains how in this post: Search Wikipedia from Dictionary
