On October 24, 2011, The Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown University is hosting an event, “Digital Anxieties: Questions about Copyright, Fair Use, Privacy and more.” The speakers at the event inlcude Heidi Wach…
Enrico Bertini and I are organizing a birds-of-a-feather meeting on blogging. Due to some miscommunication, this has turned into two venues, one being the BOF, the other a dinner or drinks or a dinner with drinks or something. Anyway, if you’re going t…
This past weekend I attended the Nebraska Digital Workshop hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, future host of Digital Humanities 2013. This was the sixth year of this rather unique event, which brings three early career scholars to Lincoln to . . .
(I wrote this for a law school class I taught two years ago, and just dusted off for my current students. It might be helpful for folks getting pushback about teaching social media/software skills)
Dear Student:
No, you’re not any one of my students …
I recently had the chance to think about digital humanities from the outside, which is a bit of a new experience. EDUCAUSE Review recently focused on the importance of IT in higher ed, and I wrote a column for them about digital humanities. Of course, …
Join Steve Hargadon Thursday, October 20th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Mark Surman, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation.Badges for Lifelong Learning
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One of the main issues with crowdsourcing is the reliability of the information provided by an often anonymous public. This is particularly the case when dealing with medical and health related information.
Patient Participate!, one of the JISC-funded community collections projects, tackled this problem and brought together the British Library, UKOLN and the Association of Medical [...]
Smashing Magazine offers advice on the dos and don’ts of infographic design, but they forgot to include the former. It’s as if I wrote a fake post and someone mistook it for a serious guide. Written by Amy Balliett of Killer Infographics, the post is basically tips for how to create linkbait that doesn’t work. [...]
Dear HASTAC Scholars,
Anyone else finding it challenging to read all the great content on the site? How can we make this easier to navigate. Anyone have the ability to put a threaded internally ranked system into place, like slashdot(.org)?…
I just finished a marvelous Skype visit with Howard Rheingold’s class of co-learners at Stanford. They asked such probing and interesting questions and I had fun answering and learning about the differnt ways that class is being co-taught, co-lea…
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is pleased to announce the appointment of Travis Brown as Assistant Director of Research and Development. Travis previously served as R&D Software Developer at MITH. As Assistant Director, Travis will lead MITH’s research and development initiatives, as part of our focus . . .
The list below comprises the books that make up the “100 Novels Project.” The list of books ranges from Southern, Protest, Feminist, Neo-Slave Narratives, and Street literature.
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My beloved grandmother loves to talk to others about her grandchildren and how proud she is of what each one of us has become. Although, I always worried — actually, I had solid evidence — that sh…
We’ve been doing a little experiment at our museum with labels. The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum recently loaned us some fabulous surfboards that tell the co-mingled history of surfing and redwood trees in Santa Cruz. In our quest to make the public are…
What’s Up [uid.com] features an animated bubble scatterplot to convey a visual overview of Twitter’s most popular conversation subjects in time.
Each subject is represented by a unique bubble, of which the size corresponds to its popularity. Popular…
