I’m giving a talk today at the POD Network conference in Seattle titled “Social Pedagogies: Motivating Students through Authentic Audiences.” Here’s the Prezi for my talk. You can move through the Prezi by clicking the forward button, or you can use your mouse to pan and zoom freely through the Prezi. See Prezi Here
Changing my form of communication reminds me of my audience. The challenges of communicating through the digital highlight the corresponding issues faced by readers of this non-traditionally presented content. My master’s thesis involved a user study evaluating the use of well-established digital humanities archives by a wider audience, a group I still refer to as […]
Most THATCamps utilize a bundle of tools, tags, and links to connect the on-ground conversations taking place locally to broader conversations taking place online. Sometimes this practice has resulted in concepts escaping from a THATCamp session into the wild, sometimes into another simultaneous breakout session during THATCamp. THATCamp Hybrid Pedagogy will build on these previous experiences in […]
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is excited to announce the launch of its Registry (http://orcid.org), where researchers can distinguish themselves by creating a unique personal identifier. “ORCID addresses a problem shared by individuals and organizations across the research community: reliably connecting research with researchers,” said Laure Haak, Executive Director of the non-profit ORCID organization. […]
In May of this year, a second Getting There cluster was announced. Like the first, this collection will provide a venue for discussing the pathways one may take to an alt-ac track and provide these signposts for those who are curious about alt-ac. My exciting job has slowed me down in organizing this cluster as I would […]
http://interactingwithprint.org/datavisualizationresearcher.html The Interacting with Print Research Group is seeking to hire a highly motivated individual who is skilled in the field of digital humanities, with a specialty in data visualization, text mining, and the design of digital tools. The ideal candidate is someone who has experience in both information design and computer programming, and an […]
“New Media and the Middle Ages” 8th Annual Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Graduate Student Conference CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY March 1, 2013, 10am-4pm The field of medieval studies has a relatively long and recognized history of scholarship assisted by technology. The 2013 PKMS Graduate Student Conference aims at addressing some of the key […]
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is delighted to announce our first Appfest, an informal, open call for both ideas and functional examples of creative and engaging ways to use the content and metadata in the DPLA back-end platform. The first Appfest will take place on November 8-9, 2012, at the Chattanooga Public Library on The 4th […]
We are doing Rails Girls in Washington, DC, again! We’re hosting a fun and free web development workshop. Come and learn about building web applications with Ruby on Rails. Here in DC, we’re about more than just politics and monuments, we have a strong technology community who loves Ruby and Rails. Apply now! Applications are open […]
A big question for me, as a designer of text analysis tools for the humanities is: how do the tools I’m building fit in? Sure, you can have fancy word trees and grammatical search histograms. Sure, they’re chock-full of interesting information that you can make an argument about. But where exactly in the humanistic analysis […]
