Sessions and Ideas
WMS 200 in SL or Gender in the Metaverse
Thursday, December 31st, 2009What are the positives and negatives of teaching in SL? I would like to discuss several issues which relate to teaching in SL . . .
Animating Community Stories / Connecting with Local Resources
Thursday, December 31st, 2009I 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 in the early 1900′s. The course was titled the Archaeology of a Neighborhood, and was [...]
Digital Story Telling
Thursday, December 31st, 2009I am interested in digital story telling. I would like to discuss issues of presentation, interaction, argumentation, narrative and non-narrative structures.
Student Learning Through Digital History Projects
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Teaching 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 using Omeka: Colonial Latin American Material Culture and Global History before 1000ce. Both of these [...]
Georeferencing History
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009I 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 size (or larger) rather than the tiny or incomplete reproductions often available. Digital technology now [...]
Treasures of Geocities/Big Brother in MY Kindle?
Monday, December 21st, 2009I 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. Its ease of use gave the average web citizen the chance to share vast [...]
Museums Online (small museums that is)
Monday, December 21st, 2009Hello! 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 asking at THATcamp: 1. How can a small musuem/archive such as ours connect with educators [...]
Information Cartography
Friday, December 18th, 2009This is my initial inventory of things I might want to talk about at THATcamp. I’ve used a four-quadrant mini mind map to group things on a continuum between my “real-work” and my purely “for-fun” threads of interest.
Data mining as literary criticism
Friday, December 18th, 2009At 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 very focused analysis of the elements of a single text. With “distant reading,” Moretti means [...]
Taking collaboration to the online environment
Monday, December 14th, 2009ColumbusNeighborhoods.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 Columbus Metropolitan Library have stepped up to the challenge by working together on a [...]