For MediaShift’s Craig Silverman and history teacher Kevin Levin, the brave new digital world is only as good as our ability to navigate it.
Archive for January 2011
When first presented with an interactive mapping application such as Google Earth or Google Maps the majority of us seek out our homes. This compulsion is likely rooted in the personal geographies (community, family, work, etc.) that structure our ex…
As a follow-up to my two-part series on LMS market share, I am tracking news development about adoption announcements, particularly of Vista schools. Today brings word that CSU Chico is moving from Vista to Blackboard 9.1. Possibly related posts:A Big … Continue reading →
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Foursquare has a look at their usage in 2010. I bet you were sitting there wondering how many peopled named Wendy checked in at Wendy’s during the year. It was 224, but there was only one mayor of Wendy’s named Wendy. What I really want to know though is if people named Wendy are more [...]
It’s January, and that means air travel, interviews, ball rooms, and exhibit halls. This year Digital Campus recognizes conference season with an extended discussion of digital humanities at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association (AHA) and the Modern Language Association (MLA). We also take time to discuss the latest tech news coming out [...]
You are warmly invited to attend
“Digital Transformations: New developments in cultural heritage imaging”
a workshop on digital imaging to be held at the University of Oxford on Friday, 25 February 2011.
The workshop will focus on documentary evidence, from 3D capture techniques to reflectance transformation imaging (RTI). This workshop is part of the collaborative University of Oxford [...]
LinkedIn has been having some fun with their data lately. They opened up the career tree a couple of months ago, and today they announced InMap to visualize your links as a network diagram. They call it InMap: InMaps is an interactive visual representation of your professional universe that answers all of the above questions. [...]
A Countdown to the DML Competition Showcase would not be complete without Howard Rheingold, a 2008 DML Competition winner for
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For anyone blessed with a LinkedIn account, this might be quite interesting: InMaps [linkedinlabs.com] is new service that visualizes the collection of a LinkedIn ‘connections’ as a single network graph. The work was clearly inspired by the results fr…
While looking for something on this blog http://cameronneylon.net/category/blog/ (which I recommend in general), I stumbled on the fact that an interesting workshop recently took place entitled Beyond the PDF. The workshop goal is described as follows:…
On a wintry day c.1906, Edward Curtis took a picture of this Apsaroke woman (see also Apsáalooke, or The Crow Nation) as she bent down to get water from a stream. This image is now available from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. In addition to the Curtis collection, NINES offers free full-text [...]
One concern for mapping with the Ipad in the field is display. In direct sun it is very hard to read, and it has an internal temp sensor which automatically shuts it down if it gets too hot.
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Those pondering the impact of the digital world on libraries may be interested in this podcast of a lecture called “Libraries at Risk” by Professor David McKitterick (Trinity College, Cambridge). The lecture took place at the Seminar on the History of Libraries at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK on 30 November [...]
This is the third in a series of posts about Paul Light’s book Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally. This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutio…
The recent workshop “Off the Tracks—Laying New Lines for Digital Humanities Scholars” held on January 20th and 21st, 2011 at MITH was an extreme success and we are grateful to our now former Associate Director, Doug Reside and current Research Associate, Tanya Clement for their leadership. One of the most…
