Report: OpenCourseWare 2012
Author: Colleen Nugent
Blog Archives for Colleen Nugent Page 454
Editors’ Choice: Milo Minderbinder University?
The End of Western Civilization As We Know It
March 21-28, 2008
Over the past couple of years I’ve written a number of posts in which I wrestle with what technological change means for the future of higher education, general education, and history education specifically. Much of my speculating and ranting in these posts has centered on what seems to me to be a clash between the traditional methods by which knowledge is delivered to students (curriculum, teaching) and the world that our students live in (tech-centric, socially networked, etc.).
Philosophical Leadership Needed for the Future: Digital Humanities Scholars in Museums
Subscribe to Comments for this Post Editors Note: For the Museum Computer Network Conference in 2011 Neal Stimler, Associate Coordinator of Images at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, placed a call for a crowdsourced panel. Panelists submitted responses from an open call to the community of professionals in archives, libraries, museums and universities as they […]
Critical Discourse in the Digital Humanities by Fred Gibbs
Subscribe to Comments for this Post This post is a moderately revised version of a talk I gave as part of MITH’s Digital Dialogues series, titled “Criticism in the Digital Humanities.” The original audio and slides have been posted; this version has benefitted from the thoughtful questions and comments that followed my presentation. Many thanks to MITH for […]
Academic History Writing and its Disconnects by Tim Hitchcock
Subscribe to Comments for this Post This is the rough text of a short talk I am scheduled to deliver at a symposium on ‘Future Directions in Book History’ at Cambridge on the 24th of November 2011. I am on the programme as talking briefly about the ‘OldBailey Online and other resources’ (by which I […]
CFParticipation: Drupal for Humanists
Quinn Dombrowski and I are writing a manual on using the Drupal 7 CMS for digital humanities projects. Titled unimaginatively Drupal for Humanists, it is meant to provide first an understanding of how to install and configure Drupal and then a series of case studies representative of Drupal’s use in humanities research and the library.
Job: Junior Fellow Summer Intern Library of Congress
The general focus of the Junior Fellows Program is on increasing access to the collections and an awareness of the Library’s copyright, legal and special collections and digital initiatives. In the past, projects have been developed to make the collections better known and accessible to researchers including scholars, students, teachers, knowledge creators, and the general public. Interns help the Library expose unprocessed collections, participate in digital projects, provide additional services to Congress and the public, and make our collections more immediately accessible to scholars. Interns work under the direction of Library curators and specialists in various divisions. In the past, summer interns have identified hundreds of historical, literary, artistic, cinematic and musical gems representing rich cultural, creative, and intellectual resources. United States citizens currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate school.
Resource: Zotero 3.0 Is Here!
Today we’re delighted to announce that Zotero 3.0 has officially arrived Zotero 3.0 marks a major departure from previous versions, most notably with the new ability run outside the Firefox browser. Available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, this standalone version of Zotero contains all the great functionality of the old Firefox-based Zotero but now enables users to integrate Zotero into browsers other than Firefox like Google Chrome and Apple Safari. To all you Firefox lovers out there, no need to worry! Zotero continues to work within Firefox, and even if you choose to run the standalone version, it will talk to Firefox, too.
CFP: M-libraries Fourth International Conference
“From margin to mainstream: mobile technologies transforming lives and libraries”
24-26 September 2012 at the Open University, UK
Mobile technology has transformed so many aspects of our lives: how we work, how we communicate, how we study and how we play. Since the first successful M-libraries conference in 2007, libraries around the world have made huge advances in harnessing the technology to improve and enhance their services. The Fourth international conference will bring together researchers, technical developers, managers, educators, and library practitioners to review achievements to date and consider the creative challenges and opportunities ahead.
Editors’ Choice: On Sharing With the Right People, or Why Online Metrics to Assess “Impact” Should Be Qualitative (Too)
There has been much talk recently about “maximising” and measuring academic impact through blogging and social media (as well as the academic impact of online publications and resources), but what is not often discussed thoroughly is what the meaning of “maximising” is in this context.
“Maximising” seems to refer to the quantitative, rather than the qualitative, implying that “impact” is necessarily related to how many people or visits or clicks or downloads a given online resource is getting.