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THATCamp Columbus Follow Up
by THATcamp Admin
Much has happened in the intervening months since THATCamp Columbus was held. This past weekend saw another successful regional camp in Great Lakes THATCamp, there have been announced upcoming camps in London and Paris, and yesterday the Center...
Curating the City
by Mark Tebeau
Our ambition at the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, and mine particularly as a digital scholar, is to "curate the city," to organize it as a living museum exhibition, understood in the broadest terms. (My colleague Mark Souther...
Dinner Tonight at India Oven! You in?
by Erin Bell
Hey, THAT Campers, looks like we'll be meeting at India Oven tonight at 7:30pm. Here's a link to India Oven's website Here's a link for directions And here's the address: 427 East Main Street, Columbus, OH 43215-5349 Please leave a message in...
Teaching Regional History Digitally
by Mark Tebeau
We (in Cleveland State University's History Department and the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities) have developed Teaching & Learning Cleveland as a way to transform the region into a learning laboratory for upper-level university courses, as well as...
Questions – what are degrees about?
by Jones Cecil
THATCAMP Is education simply for education's sake? Is the new master's degree the old bachelor's degree? Why pursue a...
Google Wave for the classroom and Foreign Langauge Learners
by henry347
I'll be discussing and demonstarting Google Wave as an instructional tool using a Wave constructed from two lesson plans and integrating a variety of widgets and...
The Perils of Digitization: Google Research Centers
by Laura Mandell
One last thought as I dash to CSC: I'm interested in a panel about the incipient formation of the Google Research Centers, both how wonderful it is that scholars will be given the opportunity to do "nonconsumptive" reading of copyrighted...
Session clarification
by Faith Van Horne
Posted a rough idea for a couple possibilities earlier. Now that I've gotten some feedback here's what I'll focus on. Over the summer, Amazon deleted copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle owners with no prior warning. Though Amazon apologized...
How do we share our knowledge of historic places?
by Eli Pousson
How do scholars, activists, tourists, neighbors, city planners, and preservationists find and share information about historic places in their communities, in their cities, and in their regions? How do they identify relationships between places or understand the context within such...
Translating Hands-on Activities to the Virtual World
by Stacia Kuceyeski
Through the Buckeye Council for History Education we are going to be taking our K-12 teacher professional development seminars and modifying them for a webinar format. One of the most successful aspects of our PD are our primary source activities. The...
Digital Resources Outside the System!
by Phil Sager
In my day job at the Ohio Historical Society I spend a lot of time working with online collections systems (primarily CONTENTdm). However, most of these systems come "pre-staged" with a particular look and feel and set of behaviors. These...
MacGyver-ing History: building online community history with only the tools available
by Candace Nast
I'd like to to talk about building an online local history collection of audio and video interviews, photos, written narratives, recipes, records, etc. What is doable when there's lots of interest but no budget or time, tech resources and skills...
Information Cartography at Work Work
by Doug Lambert
For the past 7 years I have been working with oral historian Michael Frisch, Ph.D., at The Randforce Associates in Buffalo, NY. With no formal background in public history, oral history, or really any history I followed my curiosity into...
Increasing Public Participation and Collaboration
by Kristina Kuehling
The Ohio Historical Society, in collaboration with the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at the Cleveland State University Department of History, recently launched a website, www.ohiocivilwar150.org, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The website serves...
Sourcing, surfing, and sharing: let’s talk about the crowd
by Heather Soyka
I'm interested in talking about the evolution of crowdsourcing in a digital sense, and in hearing about solutions, problems, and pie-in-the-sky future ideas. Staff at the Library of Congress and NARA posted images to Flickr Commons, and have found that users...
Teaching about technology as a prerequisite to teaching with technology?
by Eric H. Limbach
I have been reading fellow attendees posts on digital literacy and teaching/learning with technology with interest, and I'd like to collaborate on at least one session talking about these topics. In the past two years, I've taught two fully-online courses...
Visualization Tools – c
by Laura Mandell
(I just discovered a wonderful "data mining as literary criticism" presentation, and so recycled an earlier posting on datamining to offer this instead). Digital Artist Ira Greenberg developed for me a poetry visualization tool using processing. All kinds of interesting issues...
Text Encoding Projects for Small Institutions
by Richard Wisneski
Case Western Reserve University's Kelvin Smith Library is in the first year of a five-year project to digitize and text-encode books on this area's history. The project, Cleveland, Ohio and the Western Reserve Digital Text Collection, contains over 100 texts...
Mapping, Social Networking and the Classroom
by Amanda Morton
In 2006, the National Geographic Education Foundation and Roper Public Affairs published a report on geographic literacy. This report revealed a somewhat disturbing level of geographic literacy among Americans - both children and adults - citing a dramatic lack of...
Democratizing Urban Planning Practice
by Jonathan E. Tarr
For years, practicing planners have been seeking substantive input from urban residents on their plans for new roads, rail systems, housing developments, and shopping centers. Having abandoned a "build now, ask questions later" mode of practice, we now seek...
Social Media, Creativity and Promotion
by lizmurphythomas
Traditional studio art education clearly defines artistic success. Creative efforts are considered validated by achieving gallery representation, receiving critical review and exhibiting artwork in traditional venues such as brick and mortar museums and galleries. But how relevant are these goals for...
Synchronicity: Merging Text with Audio/Video Components of Oral History Online
by Doug Boyd
Oral History is a complex information package that has not yet fully realized its potential with regard to internet access. Content management systems still generally treat the different components of oral history as separate entities. You can search the text...
WMS 200 in SL or Gender in the Metaverse
by Victoria Chadbourne
I am developing an introductory Women's Studies class to be held in the metaverse of Second Life. The primary focus of the class will be gender identity and gender expression. I chose SL as the platform for several reasons. First is...
Animating Community Stories / Connecting with Local Resources
by Dennie Eagleson
I just finished teaching a course as an Artist in Residence at the University of Dayton that offered an interdisciplinary approach to uncovering the history of the UD Student Neighborhood, an area that was developed to be NCR worker housing...
Digital Story Telling
by Andrea Odiorne
I am interested in digital story telling. I would like to discuss issues of presentation, interaction, argumentation, narrative and non-narrative...
Student Learning Through Digital History Projects
by Katie Holt
Teaching at a small liberal arts college means that most of my digital humanities work focuses on the classroom. During the fall 2009 semester, both my Colonial Latin American History course and my Global History course built digital history exhibits...
Georeferencing History
by Stephen Titchenal
I have always been fascinated by maps, photos and old documents depicted in history books. These primary source materials can bring historical research alive for students. I always wished I could easily view and share them at the original full...
Treasures of Geocities/Big Brother in MY Kindle?
by Faith Van Horne
I had a couple of ideas for exploration, so I'll post them both and see what people gravitate toward. 1. Yahoo! closed down Geocities this past October. In the 1990's, Geocities was the introduction to webpage design for millions of users. ...
Museums Online (small museums that is)
by Elizabeth Schultz
Hello! I am the Museum Education and Tour Coordinator at the Oberlin Heritage Center. We are a small historical society / museum in Oberlin, OH and we just a launched a new website. I have three big questions I'll be...
Information Cartography
by Doug Lambert
Since this blogging itself is intended to shape the interaction at THATcamp, I will use it to sketch out my interests allowing us to hone in on what I am going to talk about as the event approaches. As a...
Data mining as literary criticism
by David Staley
At THATCamp, I will be displaying Distant Readings I (text visualization, 2009), an installation that explores the aesthetics of data mining. "Distant reading" is the term invented by the literary critic Franco Moretti to mean the opposite of "close reading," which is the...
Taking collaboration to the online environment
by Jamison Pack
ColumbusNeighborhoods.org and Ohioana Authors Many nonprofits and public institutions are constantly challenged to demonstrate collaboration and innovation. However, local examples of success are rare, and even more so when it comes to collaborating for online experiences. WOSU Public Media and the...
Preserving Digital Humanities Projects
by Melanie Schlosser
Have you seen the Modern Language Association's new Evaluation Wiki? It's "an ongoing project initiated by the MLA Committee on Information Technology (CIT) as a way for the academic community to develop, gather, and share materials about the evaluation of...
Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum: Is it desirable? Is it possible?
by Boone Gorges
I spent a few years as a graduate fellow in a Writing Across the Curriculum program, and in my current full-time position as an instructional technologist I continue to collaborate frequently with WAC. In the time I've spent in close...
Research with Zotero
by Gary Greenberg
I have been using the Zotero plug-in to Firefox, developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, as my primary computer tool in my dissertation work at The Ohio State University. My research is about...
Utilizing the Digital Humanities in the Urban Classroom
by Justin Hons
In the last two years I have incorporated a variety of concepts and ideas into my urban classroom in Cleveland in a unique manner. Traditional historical scholarship, historical thinking, 2.0 digi-mocracy, social networking sites, primary source investigation, diy styled methodology,...
Civic Engagement & Digital Humanities
by Marjorie McLellan
In a recent report, "the edgeless university: why higher education must embrace technology" author Peter Bradwell compares universities to Robert Lang's study of sprawling urban areas that produce "cities in function . . . but not in form." Bradwell...
72nd OVI Project
by Jim Gutowski
The 72nd OVI Project is an ongoing development that allows my AP US History students and me to pool our skills to produce original historical research easily available to the learning community. We are building a webpage dedicated to the...
Digital Video Scholarship
by William Cowan
In February 2005, three former employees of Paypal created YouTube. The first video was available on the site on April 23, 2005. According to Google, YouTube now has over a billion viewers a day worldwide. In a relatively short time,...
Social Networking and Digital Humanities Projects
by Amanda Sikarskie
How can digital humanities projects use social networking to expand their audience base and excite new audiences about content? Hi, my name is Amanda Sikarskie, and I work in project development on the Quilt Index, www.quiltindex.org. The QI is an...
Acceptances for THATCamp Columbus have been sent!
by Erin Bell
Acceptances for THATCamp Columbus have been sent! We've got a wonderful mix of people and are looking forward to a great gathering of humanities folks on January 15th-16th, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio. For you stragglers, we've reserved just a few...