L-R: Gardner Campbell (moderator), Shannon Hauser, Serena Epstein, Ben Vigeant, Adam Turner

Last Saturday UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies hosted its fourth annual Student Academy on Information Technologies. Like last year, this year’s event closed with a student panel speaking to the general topic of “Life Online.” Acting DTLT Director Martha Burtis invited me to moderate this year’s panel.

Again like last year, the discussion was wide-ranging, funny, thoughtful, and provocative. I hope we can continue to record these panel discussions, for ten years from now they will constitute a rich and fascinating map of changing attitudes and expectations. In fact, just comparing last year’s panel to this year’s is already a fascinating exercise.

Audio note: We had four panelists this year, and in hindsight (hind-listening?) it’s obvious I should have used multiple microphones. You’ll hear an awful lot of volume adjustments in the course of this recording. I hope the result is at least listenable. My thanks to Andy Rush for engineering assistance in the location recording. Special thanks to the four students who participated. This year we had a senior, a junior, a sophomore, and a freshman, so we had an interesting generational spread within the panel, too.

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