making things, and working with people to make things better
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 …
Continue reading "Working Assignment: Digital Gomatos Collection"
I just received the MLA edition on teaching contemporary theory to undergraduates I ordered in preparation for my courses this term, and on a quick browse, it looks less useful than I thought it would be--that is, more theoretical. Which is not bad, but telling.... Why do we assume that if a text like this …
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 …
I was so impressed with my students' final projects in Visual and Cultural Studies! Overall, they made a very strong showing in their five-minute critical analysis videos. The assignment was fairly open in terms of content, as we were spending several evenings conducting hands-on work in the multimedia lab, but in general, I'd asked them …
Oxford conversion of ECCO texts, freely available as ePUBs! Joy! There's no real finding guide, and you won't get the facsimile pages, but it's a happy day for those of us without institutional access to Eighteenth-Century Collections Online. Use CTRL-F to find authors, titles; download the Firefox ePUB addon for easy viewing.
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, …
WordNet [Fellbaum, 1998] is a heavily-used lexical resource in natural-language processing and information retrieval. More recently, it has also been adopted in Semantic Web research community. It is used mainly for annotation and retrieval in different domains such as cultural heritage [Hollink et al., 2003], product catalogs [Guarino et al., 1999] and photo metadata [Brickley, …
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 …
Continue reading "DH @ #SHARP11 « Early Modern Online Bibliography"
Today I want to talk about categorization, and I want to convince you that a lot of what we think we know about categorization is wrong. In particular, I want to convince you that many of the ways we're attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we've adopted …
Continue reading "Shirky: Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags"
On Writing, Making and Mining: Digital History Class Projects Posted by tjowens on Thursday, June 2, 2011 · Comments (0) This is the forth post in a multi-post series reflecting on the digital history course I taught last semester at American University. For more on this you can read initial post about the course, the …
Continue reading "On Writing, Making and Mining: Digital History Class Projects : Trevor Owens"
Tonya Howe 