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.
Archive for September, 2008
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
