Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: A Franken-Book-of-Hours: From Physical to Digital and Back Again – Dot Porter Digital

Between 2019 and 2022, I also worked on a project called Books of Hours as Transformative Works. If you’re not familiar with the term “transformative work,” it comes out of fandom studies—think of fan fiction or fan art—where people respond emotionally and creatively to something they love. I wanted to apply this framework to Books […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Introducing Hugo-Bibliography

Hugo-Bibliography is a new Hugo plug-in designed to make adding citations into Hugo projects much easier. It can be added as a theme to a Hugo website to generate bibliography pages using the provided shortcodes. At this point, bibliography data needs to be available in CSL-JSON format (that for example can be exported from Zotero). […]

News, Reports

Report: Higher Ed Podcasting Is Having a Moment

Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend HigherEd PodCon, the first conference devoted to podcasting across higher ed. Thanks to UPCEA, which sponsors my Intentional Teaching podcast, for sending me to Chicago for this very engaging conference! I thought I would share a few highlights from the conference here on the blog. See full […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Archives: Two Years On – Found History

Yesterday I gave a talk on AI and archives at the Colby/Bates/Bowdoin Special Collections and Archives Staff Retreat. Thanks to the staff of the George J. Mitchell Department of Archives and Special Collections and the Bowdoin Library, the amazing Schiller Center for Coastal Studies, where the event was held, and Bowdoin’s Hastings Initiative for AI […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Clemson Digital History Ph.D: Zoom Information Sessions for Fall 2025

Thinking about applying to Clemson’s groundbreaking Digital History Ph.D. program? Join us for one of our upcoming virtual information sessions! We will be hosting several informational Zoom sessions in Fall 2025 for prospective applicants to the Digital History Ph.D. program. These sessions will cover program requirements, application tips, and frequently asked questions—and will include time […]

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Report: Bringing Back the Joy in Teaching

I’ve been reflecting a lot about what I don’t like about my pedagogy lately. Recently I began experimenting with ways of refreshing my approach. I learned to manage my sense of failure in the classroom by letting go of trying to cover a lot of content, honoring the knowledge and experience students bring into the […]

News, Resources

Resource: A more interesting upside of AI

My friends are generally optimistic, forward-looking people, but talking about AI makes many of them depressed. Either AI is scarier than other technologies, or public conversation about it has failed them in some way. Or both. I think the problem is not just that people have legitimate concerns. What’s weird and depressing about AI discourse […]