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“All goes onward and outward . . . . and nothing collapses” – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855) Last week’s student conference in Camden brought “Looking for Whitman” to a rousing, poignant close. Four months after the classes involved in the project had ended, students from the University of Mary Washington, Rutgers-Camden, and City […] […] Click here to view the embedded video. […] Here are some photos taken during the visit that the City Tech class made to the Brooklyn Historical Society on November 3rd. The trip was part of a new research project in which each student in the course chose an address in which Whitman lived briefly during his time in Brooklyn. Students will perform historical […] […] flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide. and ebb with ebb-tide! frolic on, crested and scallop-edg’d waves! gorgeous clouds of the sunset! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me! cross from shore to shore, countless crowds of passengers! stand up, tall masts of mannahatta! stand up, beautiful hills of brooklyn! […] […] As we all know by now, Whitman himself was intensely interested in typography and design, an interest that led him to design and redesign various editions of Leaves of Grass. As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve just completed a major first step in the redesign of our own web-based project. You should be seeing a new […] […] After a discussion today with the other faculty members involved in “Looking for Whitman,” I added the feeds of two project blogs to all course pages: Announcements – project-wide announcements WhitTech – our tech-support blog Our hope is that adding these feeds to your course sites will increase the visibility of important posts that should […] […] “Welcome Sign” by Flickr user davidking As Project Director of “Looking for Whitman,” it gives me great pleasure to welcome students from the University of Mary Washington, New York City College of Technology, Rutgers University-Camden, and University of Novi Sad to our project website! This is an exciting moment in higher education, when traditional methods […] […] […] |