Two years ago I was preparing for a semester in which all of my classes involved “multimodal” student work — that is, theoretically-informed, research-based work that resulted in something other than a traditional paper. For years I’d been giving students in my classes the option of submitting, for at least one of their semester assignments, a media…

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In the central post in my whaling series, I argued data presentation offers historians an appealing avenue for historical argumentation, analogous in importance to the practice of shaping personal stories into narratives in more traditional histories. Both narratives and data presentations can appeal to a broader public than more technical parts of history like historiography; and…

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[This is a talk I gave at Loyola University Chicago on November 8th, 2012.] In January of this year, Stanley Fish published a series of online essays for The New York Times on digital humanities (this, then this, then this). To summarize: He doesn’t like it so much. And for those of us who like…

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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

What follows is a comprehensive list of digital humanities sessions at the 2013 Modern Language Association Conference in Boston. These are sessions that in some way address the influence and impact of digital materials and tools upon language, literary, textual, and media studies, as well as upon online pedagogy and scholarly communication. The 2013 list…

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