Monthly Archives: October 2012

Lightning Talks (Dork Shorts)

Tell us about your project, the great tools or apps that make your life worth living or anything that you think is relevant and worth telling about. You have two minutes, one topic, and you get to use one URL … Continue reading

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TEI from the Ground Up

These are some instructions for preparing for the TEI workshop: This TEI micro-workshop comes in two parts: 1. Introduction to TEI This morning session will introduce the basic ideas of text encoding with the TEI. No laptops or advance preparation … Continue reading

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Preparing for Workshop on Integrating DH into the Undergrad Curriculum

Folks who are interested in this workshop might want to have a look at the bibliography on our wiki. Just visit the site and request access. On Friday, you’ll want to bring a laptop and an idea for a project … Continue reading

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Digital Media Content Production and Storytelling

I am interested in integrating online digital media into the storytelling process for Journalism students. My focus is on applying Journalism skills using video, audio, photography, interactive design and social media tools. Identifying the qualities of each media and applying … Continue reading

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Negotiating DH Projects in a Non-DH Environment

Coming from a school that is fairly traditional when it comes to scholarly work, some of our faculty express interest in DH projects but often do not end up pursuing these projects or work on them as side projects in … Continue reading

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Digital humanities, public humanities, and K-12 education

As exciting as new university DH Centers are, as much as they open up new methods of scholarship, I wonder how much their reach extends beyond universities to K-12 education and the general public.  How have digital humanities projects involved … Continue reading

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Sustaining and Preserving Digital Projects

I’d like to have a conversation about how we plan for the future of digital humanities projects, especially the web-based components presenting contextualized data. I’m concerned about sustainability when we lose so many on-line resources each year. How can we … Continue reading

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Bringing the human factor to digital humanities

I’ve noticed that most of the DH conversations center around how the humanities can use and benefit from  technology. I’d like to discuss how technology can benefit from/be influenced by the humanities. Some ideas/questions: Forums,  tribes and online friendships Cyberbullying, … Continue reading

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Customizing Omeka

I’d love to learn about how people are customizing their Omeka sites with a session along the lines of this one (“Making Content Shine with Omeka”) led by Amanda French at THATCamp Philly 2011.  On a broad level, I’d like to learn … Continue reading

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Graduate Student preparation in digital humanities

Clarissa Ceglio has a thoughtful post on this site that doesn’t seem to have made it to the session proposal page.  Clarissa writes: One of the items I’d like to propose for discussion among fellow graduate students attending THATCamp NE … Continue reading

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