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NWSAction 2.0
NWSA Past President Vivien Ng takes on Web 2.0
SPECIAL SECTION: "TAKE ONE"
I caught the hypertext bug more than a decade ago, when I allowed my students in Project Renaissance — University at Albany's unique living learning community for first-year students — to construct a virtual art museum for their final group project. 1996 was almost like the Stone Age in terms of hypertext authoring tools that were available at the time, but my students worked around the limitations and created a visually stunning product. I took a calculated risk and crossed the threshold to the digital domain. I have not looked back.
Whether a private conversation or public, these tools can foster enthusiasm for assigned texts, and further the discussion beyond the classroom. "One possibility, says Curtis, is to meet your students where they are," refering to the popularity and the many possiblities sites like "Face Book" now offer.
Having Their Say: Strong Voices From the Marginalized Majority
By Amy Hill Hearth
"As a writer of oral histories, specializing in the stories of older women," says Hearth, "it is a common thread that I must first convince my subjects that what they have to say is worthy of a book. They have accepted the message that the world does not care about the experiences, opinions, and life stories of women, especially older women – and particularly, older women from minority backgrounds".
Inspired by her initial success with the Delany Sisters Hearth has continued to write oral histories of older women.
"... I may be the only commercially-successful author in America writing oral histories of unknown, older women – books that are rare, also, because they manage to sell to a mass audience but are used widely in university classrooms as well," says Amy Hill Hearth. "I may have a niche all to myself, which is extraordinarily sad when you consider how many wonderful women are out there whose stories could – and should -- be told to mass audiences. We are the majority population, and yet we continue to be marginalized."
Integrating "New Media" and the Classroom
NWSA and WSS —Natural Allies
NWSA Executive Director Allison Kimmich attended the first meeting of the UNESCO women’s and gender studies network at Miriam College in Manila, Philippines on July 25-26, 2007.