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Smith College Blogs Nominated for WPMu Awards

Esther — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:01:38 +0000

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.

Sophian Editorializes

Esther — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:50:34 +0000

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

Dance!

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:23:17 +0000

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.

Family Weekend

Esther — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:52:15 +0000

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!

Smithies on Smith

Esther — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:15:19 +0000

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.

Online Literacy

Esther — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:19:02 +0000

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.

Quick Tip from Smith Mac User

Esther — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:59:51 +0000

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