The Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) is a new non-profit organization which supports innovative uses of and content creation for Wikipedia and related projects in communities of teaching, learning and inquiry by encouraging collaboration among Wikipedia editors, educators and researchers and students. The WEF’s principal initiative is the U.S. and Canada Wikipedia Education Program (“the program”), which connects […]
We put on two week-long programs, where girls 12 to 14 learned how to brainstorm, design, build, and pitch iPhone apps. We also raised $106K via our Indiegogo campaign, thanks to the incredible support from our community of app developers, designers and geeks of all stripes. We are working on plans for Summer 2014, including expanding camp […]
Reporting to the Digital Publications Manager, the Digital Publications Developer will be a key position in building a multi-faceted digital publications program for the Getty. The Digital Publications Developer supports Getty Publications in the creation of digital books across a variety of formats and platforms; in the management of digital assets and workflows for creating […]
Yea, as a fellow with the City of LA Department of Cultural Affairs, I have a mission to innovate and technologize the department. I’m spearheading the department’s web redesign project — thinking about how to better articulate our work, outreach to constituents, and digitize some of our services. I’m still wearing my ethnographer’s hat, thinking […]
December 6, 2013 As 2013 rolls to an end and magazines and newspapers begin to reflect on the past year, we thought we’d take a look at the last twelve months in Digital Humanities Now. As part of the PressForward project’s research into scholarly communication, these periodic status updates help us better understand where we’ve […]
On Friday, December 6 from 12:00 – 1:00pm Eastern (9:00 – 10:00am Pacific), Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion under the hashtag #digped to discuss the process, practice, and theories of grading. Read full post here.
Crowdsourcing is often approached as a full-attention activity, but it can also be used for applications so small that people perform them almost effortlessly. What possibilities are afforded by pursuing low-effort crowdsourcing? Low-effort crowdsourcing is possible through a mix of low-granularity tasks, unobtrusive input methods, and an appropriate setting. Exploring the possibilities of low-effort crowdsourcing, we […]
We set out to create a free and easy‐to‐use plugin for WordPress that creates Braille texts from WordPress posts, allowing any WordPress site to share the products of their text‐based projects with this often‐neglected audience of readers. Originally, we planned to extend the use of Anthologize—a free and open source plugin for WordPress that currently […]
Radical changes in the information landscape are transforming traditional academic roles and the roles of libraries within the academy. This program prepares a new generation of librarians, scientists, and scholars for work at the intersections of scholarship, teaching and librarianship in the emerging research environment. CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows in Academic Libraries work on projects that […]
Balsamo also describes roles for artists, social scientists, engineers, computer scientists, and physical scientists, but it is the humanist’s role that interests me here. Briefly put: to historicize, interpret, and critique. It’s a fair description inasmuch as that is what humanists tend to do in any context so it makes sense that they might serve […]
