HASTAC Scholars will be participating in a New Collectives panel at DML2011: Designing Learning Futures
I wanted to take an opportunity to draw your attention to the (relatively) recent release of three pretty awesome-looking books.
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MITH is proud to announce that Maria Velazquez, a University of Maryland, College Park PhD student in American Studies, as our spring 2011 member for MITH’s Winnemore Digital Humanities Dissertation Fellows program. Each spring semester MITH provides support to a graduate student whose dissertation engages the intersections between new media…
Ok, this is probably going to get a lot of blog post coverage from a variety of disciplines becasue it marry’s so many together with its street view-indoor approach to navigating a gallery which is very effective through the code, and GUI blogs but also the artists and general art enthusiasts.
Starry Night by Van Gogh [...]
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Are you an enthusiastic Web developer with an interest in the humanities or cultural heritage? UVa Library seeks a Web Applications Specialist to help develop software in our internationally-recognized Scholars’ Lab. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, eager to work collaboratively, and stays involved with the latest Web and digital humanities technologies. We’re seeking someone passionate [...]
(Here’s an exercise to help your students think about locative narrative and locative poetic projects without leaving the cozy chair-desks of your classroom. Jeremy and I developed this exercise for use in Liz Losh’s digital poetry course at UCSD. Try it out in your class and let us know how it goes).
Jeremy [...]
Sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, this was the culminating event in the UNCF Digital Media and Learning in Multicultural Contexts Public Forum series.
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Early childhood advocates explore digital media; a teacher responds to the State of the Union; PBS documentary examines 21st-century learners; report on technology and learning in afterschool spaces, museums and libraries; and digital learning expands in D.C.
Posted by Kim Armstrong, Deputy Director, Center for Library Initiatives, Committee on Institutional CooperationToday we’re celebrating an important milestone: Google has digitized one million books from member libraries of the Committee on Institution…
Designer Ibraheem Youssef iconifies the most viewed YouTube videos of all time. Do you recognize what each icon represents? I’m embarrassed to say that I probably know one too many of them. Here’s the graphic in video form: Like what you see? Grab the poster (along with the legend) for $50. [Ibraheem Youssef via fastcodesign] [...]
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Robo-Rainbow 2. February, 2011 How to change WordPress editor font 1. February, 2011 Ubuntu and Me, Happy Together. 3. February, 2011 Face 2 Facebook: Face-Recognition Database Datingsite 3. February, 2011 Google Apps für die eigene Domain: Mail, Kalender und Co in 10 Minuten 31. January, 2011 What Development Board to Use? 1. February, 2011 Mediated [...]
What Employees Say [cnn.com] is a fun and engaging visualization that shows the best companies people want to work for, according to Fortune Magazine.
Next to showing the obvious ranking values, the collection of blue bubbles also reveal the most pop…
The Beauty of Books, a major new BBC4 documentary series featuring the British Library’s unrivalled collections, begins at 20.30 on Monday, 7 February (available in the United Kingdom only). Episode one, “Ancient Bibles”, stars the fourth-century Codex Sinaiticus, which contains the oldest surviving complete New Testament. Future episodes will focus on the fifteenth-century Bedford Hours, the magnificent Luttrell Psalter (commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, d. 1345, a Lincolnshire landowner), and Chaucer; on Alice in Wonderland; and on the design of Penguin Books. The Bedford Hours (London, British Library, MS. Additional 18850, f. 256v) The Bedford Hours, depicted here, is one…
The multi-lingual Europe’s Energy [publicdata.eu] aims to put European energy policy (including the 2020 energy targets) into context. This interface attempts to augment Joe Public’s patchy and anecdotal understanding of energy issues across Europe in…
