Author Archives: Susan Garman

I just completed a fabulous class where we explored the intersection between historical fiction and “traditional” history. Not surprisingly, we did not come up with  ironclad rules dividing the two, but the struggle to find clarity  between the real and … Continue reading →

Enrollment in our Digital Humanities class has been an adventure. Now when I am online, I am newly aware of a whole backdrop that has always been there, but I have been heedless of. No longer! Although I do recognize … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I had the good fortune to volunteer with twenty-five students and a colleague from Marymount College at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books hosted by the Los Angeles Times at USC . It was an interesting adventure on so … Continue reading →

Two weeks ago at the bottom of my post, Trends, I began to explore the issues of self-publishing in a most elementary fashion.  Stephen Ramsay’s Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Values (part two) and the extensive comments following his post explosively … Continue reading →

The transformations that Walter Breuning witnessed in his 114 years are staggering, yet he remained staunchly pr0-change. His life story provides opportunity for reflection about Cronon’s comments on neighborliness, decency and mutual respect. Of course, quick highlights of his long life … Continue reading →

This week our task is to to explore and reflect on the nature of the web — the digital — as an open forum for knowledge production, communication, and consumption.     A Few Interesting Finds Along the Way: I. Digital Debate The turmoil … Continue reading →

At the end of Harry Roberts article about typography he listed three  sample websites worthy of note for their beauty. The second,  Khoi Vinh’s has a plethora of categories about an incredible variety of subjects (including 299 post on technology). … Continue reading →

I am mid-paper, writing about education in New England in the antebellum period and the confusing whirl between the “common school movement” that advocated the importance of access to education regardless of socioeconomic as a tool for advancing the moral, … Continue reading →

Yesterday I went to a national conference focused on implementing community and active learning in the college freshmen seminar using a learning system, “On Course.” One of the sessions was on a study by a Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck that … Continue reading →

The second article, “The History of the Internet and the Web, and the Evolution of Web Standards” in this week’s reading  of the Web Standards Curriculum begins with a quote from a blessedly familiar Victorian friend:   Where shall I begin, … Continue reading →