Posted on March 18, 2012 by thowe Come to this workshop session at ASECS! We’ll go over the basics of Omeka, an open-source tool developed by the Roy Rosensweig Center for History and New Media that allows you to construct descriptive archives of resources from images, to websites, to videos, and more. What’s better, our …
Some Omeka Tips and Tools
What is Omeka? Essentially, Omeka is an open-source and extensible software tool that allows you to create digital archives and collections of resources. For instance, a museum might want to create an accessible web-based repository of some of their collections in a way that makes research (or just more information) about them possible without being …
ProfHacker: Teaching Carnival 5.05
Teaching Carnival 5.05 By Prof. Hacker JANUARY 9, 2012 ORIGINAL POST [January’s Teaching Carnival was compiled by Tonya Howe, Assistant Professor of English at Marymount University. You can reach her via email or on Twitter. ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, so each month you can return for a snapshot of the most recent thoughts on teaching …
Working Assignment: Digital Gomatos Collection
This March at ASECS, I'm presenting my work on the development of a collaborative digital assignment for graduate students (which could also work for advanced undergraduates) organized around the creation of items in an Omeka collection. The idea is to work together to define and populate a subcollection of materials housed in our small special …
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Teaching Carnival 5.05 (in progress!)
At the end of November, the UC Davis pepper spray fiasco dramatized the intersection of politics, student life, and academia, and several bloggers considered the place of the OWS movement in the classroom. Jay Dolmage thinks--and writes--about how OWS “has been shaped through unique genres of writing and visual rhetoric,” focusing on sousveillance and the …
New projects, things left undone (for now)
So, every morning when I get up, I see the copy of the book I'm currently reviewing, and I berate myself for not finishing the thing! I've gotten about 1/4 of the way through, and I've looked over sample reviews from Restoration, but I'm struggling with completion. The book is a collection of essays of …
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Innovations in Teaching and Scholarship (2011)
This year's Innovations conference is nigh upon us, and I'll be presenting in the 10:30 1:00-2:30 workshop slot before after lunch to my faculty colleagues. The topic? Google Takes Over, But WordPress is Waiting: Sites, Blogs, and Calendars. Please swing by if you have questions, want to play around with Google Sites and WordPress, or learn …
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Student-Curated Web Archives and the Public Humanities
Just got my ASECS proposal in for the next conference! I feel as though I just returned from San Antonio.... Here it is: In “Making Connections: The Humanities, Culture and Community,” part of the findings of the ACLS’s National Task Force on Scholarship and the Public Humanities, James Quay and James Veninga explore the relationship …
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ProfHacker: Teaching Carnival 5.01
Teaching Carnival 5.01 By Prof. Hacker SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 ORIGINAL POST [September’s Teaching Carnival--and the beginning of year five of the TC--is from Tonya Howe, Assistant Professor of English at Marymount University. Tonya blogs at Cerosia and can be reached at thowe [at] Marymount [dot] edu or @howet on Twitter. ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, …
DH @ #SHARP11 « Early Modern Online Bibliography
As technologies change our environments for reading, writing and research, it is incumbent on our scholarly organizations to take note. And what group is better prepared to explore our digital future than the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing SHARP, dedicated as it is to the interdisciplinary study of the history of …
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