Have you been longing for more Ohio-based THATCamp fun? Well, wait no more! THATCamp returns to Columbus in 2012 as THATCamp OSU. Learn more...
THATCamp Columbus Follow Up
Much has happened in the intervening months since THATCamp Columbus was held. This past weekend saw another successful regional camp in Great Lakes THATCamp,...
Curating the City
Our ambition at the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, and mine particularly as a digital scholar, is to “curate the city,” to...
Dinner Tonight at India Oven! You in?
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...
Teaching Regional History Digitally
We (in Cleveland State University’s History Department and the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities) have developed Teaching & Learning Cleveland as a...
Questions – what are degrees about?
THATCAMP Is education simply for education’s sake? Is the new master’s degree the old bachelor’s degree? Why pursue a PH.D?
Google Wave for the classroom and Foreign Langauge Learners
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...
The Perils of Digitization: Google Research Centers
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...
Session clarification
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...
How do we share our knowledge of historic places?
How do scholars, activists, tourists, neighbors, city planners, and preservationists find and share information about historic places in their communities, in their cities, and...
Translating Hands-on Activities to the Virtual World
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...
Digital Resources Outside the System!
In my day job at the Ohio Historical Society I spend a lot of time working with online collections systems (primarily CONTENTdm). However, most...
MacGyver-ing History: building online community history with only the tools available
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...
Information Cartography at Work Work
My good intentions of creating up to four “sub-blogs†to accompany my original posting "Information Cartography" went… you know. I’ll keep centered around work-work...
Increasing Public Participation and Collaboration
The Ohio Historical Society, in collaboration with the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at the Cleveland State University Department of History, recently...
Sourcing, surfing, and sharing: let’s talk about the crowd
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...
Teaching about technology as a prerequisite to teaching with technology?
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...
Visualization Tools – c
(I just discovered a wonderful “data mining as literary criticism” presentation, and so recycled an earlier posting on datamining to offer this instead). Digital...
Text Encoding Projects for Small Institutions
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...
Mapping, Social Networking and the Classroom
In 2006, the National Geographic Education Foundation and Roper Public Affairs published a report on geographic literacy. This report revealed a somewhat disturbing level...
Democratizing Urban Planning Practice
For years, practicing planners have been seeking substantive input from urban residents on their plans for new roads, rail systems, housing developments, and shopping...
Social Media, Creativity and Promotion
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...
Synchronicity: Merging Text with Audio/Video Components of Oral History Online
Oral History is a complex information package that has not yet fully realized its potential with regard to internet access. Content management systems still...
WMS 200 in SL or Gender in the Metaverse
What 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
I just finished teaching a course as an Artist in Residence at the University of Dayton that offered an interdisciplinary approach to uncovering the...
Digital Story Telling
I 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
Teaching at a small liberal arts college means that most of my digital humanities work focuses on the classroom. During the fall 2009 semester,...
Georeferencing History
I have always been fascinated by maps, photos and old documents depicted in history books. These primary source materials can bring historical research alive...
Treasures of Geocities/Big Brother in MY Kindle?
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...
Museums Online (small museums that is)
Hello! I am the Museum Education and Tour Coordinator at the Oberlin Heritage Center. We are a small historical society / museum in Oberlin,...
Information Cartography
This 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...
Data mining as literary criticism
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...
Taking collaboration to the online environment
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,...
Preserving Digital Humanities Projects
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...
Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum: Is it desirable? Is it possible?
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...
Research with Zotero
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...
Utilizing the Digital Humanities in the Urban Classroom
In the last two years I have incorporated a variety of concepts and ideas into my urban classroom in Cleveland in a unique manner....
Civic Engagement & Digital Humanities
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...
72nd OVI Project
The 72nd OVI Project is an ongoing development that allows my AP US History students and me to pool our skills to produce original...
Digital Video Scholarship
In February 2005, three former employees of Paypal created YouTube. The first video was available on the site on April 23, 2005. According to...
Social Networking and Digital Humanities Projects
How can digital humanities projects use social networking to expand their audience base and excite new audiences about content? Hi, my name is Amanda...
Acceptances for THATCamp Columbus have been sent!
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...