Making digital learning environments / technologies accessible for all students?

I found this week’s story in the Chronicle of Higher Education on blind students who are advocating for improvements in the accessibility of digital websites, forums, and programs worth sharing with the Digital Scholars group. The story made me newly attentive to how I design course blogs, integrate multimedia learning modules, make use of PowerPoint [...]

Alert: Food Justice Conference Website Launched this month

I wanted to share the following website, which aims to make effective use of social media and interactive multimedia to promote and prepare attendees for the upcoming Food Justice conference at UO.

Twitter and the Library of Congress

On both Arcade and my (rather neglected) blog, I posted some initial reflections on the Twitter archive that the LOC announced yesterday. I thought the archive project might make for an interesting topic of conversation among the digital scholars group!

Graduate Seminar Blog

Graduate students in a seminar I taught this fall on the topic of environmental literature and media participated in a course blog (wordpress hosted) that proved quite successful as a space of public writing and interactive dialogue.  I would like to extend this course blog into an ongoing forum for graduate students working, broadly, in [...]