Saturday July 2nd, 2022:I woke up at noon today, a little later than I had planned for when state side but an acceptable time to wake up in my opinion, considering it was only 2 hours off the mark from the time I want to wake up at. Eric was already aw…
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Cité Universitaire (Cité U) & my dormroom upon arrival.
Cité Universitaire (Cité U) & my dormroom upon arrival. Read More »
This was the Café where we waited after getting off the RER. Its called “Le
Gentilly” and the food was good. The server only spoke back in French so communication was “interesting” to say the least at first.
This was the Café where we waited after getting off the RER. Its… Read More »
Friday July 1st, 2022:We arrived in Paris on July 1st Touching down at 8:10am at Charles De Gaulle Airport. I flew the same flight as Dr. Smith, her family, another instructor from UMW and seven other students, making us a group of 8 in total. Most us …
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I spent over a decade pouring my heart and soul in this site. I perfected the pages for my classes, constantly updated to new plugins, read up on WordPress changes, and generally spent lots and lots of time making the site as useable and pretty as poss…
I’ve now spent over a decade railing against the use of LMS. I’ve put my money where my mouth is, too, developing my materials on this site, keeping them available without a paywall, and making interfaces as easy as possible. My ethical objections to t…
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The Article “Andrew Bolton: How to Curate a Blockbuster Exhibition” is an unusually formatted article. Given largely as a series of quotes by the subject, the “article” details in Bolton’s own words his standards for deciding what to put on display in an exhibition and how he decides which exhibitions are or are not worthy … Continue reading “Curatorial Insight”
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Throughout the semester, my Intro to Museums class (HISP200) will be visiting a handful of museums in the Fredericksburg area. This past Thursday we went to the James Monroe Museum & Memorial Library in downtown FXBG. The museum itself is housed in a building (secretly 3 buildings) that was believed to have housed James Monroe’s … Continue reading “Paying a Visit to James Monroe”
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In 1977 Val Ripley and her sister, Pam, found a collection of 170+ years of their and their mother’s old dollhouses and dolls in the attic of their recently deceased mother. Within the collection were furnished dollhouses of “every period from 1840 … represent[ing] a complete social history.” In addition to this collection, the sisters … Continue reading “Dollhouses Donated to a Museum”
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Leaving for France in two weeks exactly. You think after having taught this course three times already, it would all be routine by now. And mostly, it is. Still, lots and lots to get done. Teaching a course abroad is an interesting experience. Some of it is just like teaching a regular class: syllabus prep, …
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