Featured Blogs

The Sophian blog recently published a Staff Editorial. Share your opinions in the comments!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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