DHSI 2014 in Victoria - 3 views
The Board of Governors of the University of Victoria decided to launch a post graduate diploma in Digital Humanities. They have also been supportive of the DHSI for years now and the number jumped...
BigBlue Button Open Access Project - 2 views
These are excerpts from the article: Online education has the potential to provide students everywhere with access to the best teachers, the best course materials and the best learning environment...
Marble Hornets - 5 views
Before I forget, a couple people at the symposium on Monday afternoon asked if I could post links to the series I was talking about in my Pecha Kucha, so here ya'll go. Main channel: https://www.y...
Cheer up Alessandro your kids are safe - 4 views
The lead to that news story (first clip) is pure gold: "We were interested today to hear that more that 100 law enforcement official in Mexico are having microchips implanted in their arms. The chi...
#DayofDH - 8 views
Without a doubt. Color threads for new posts would be great. Does anyone have a link to the posts created from our last workshop for 'Day of DH'?
ImagePlot as a tool for exhibition design - 9 views
Hi Christina, here are some thoughts... I liked the animated montage on the page. It got me was wondering whether there's a way to slow down the flicker speed of the animation. I ask this not beca...
DH Day - 3 views
Hear, hear, I can only second you on that , it has been a thought provoking and eye opening course or shall I say hands on workshop and/or discovery journey. When I started this course I had a litt...
Pecha Kucha and DH the sky is the limit - 6 views
Distinguished Carleton University researcher Fraser Taylor has received a coveted Killam Prize worth $100,000. Why? Taylor has demonstrated the power of cybercartography, an enhanced form of mult...
Exhibition on Information Visualization at the Science & Tech Museum - 14 views
Yes there is one interactive that includes a tutorial out of three but it does not mention the possible glitches in the project. As a possible solution guides were instructed to tell visitors that ...
This week's presentation on Crowdsourcing and Community - 29 views
1) Crowdsourcing (before preso): Crowdsourcing is creating a pool of like-minded people engaged in similar or overlapping fields from which practitioners from a variety of disciplines can draw from...
Accessibility Issues in the Digital Humanities - 18 views
Christina & Ridha - thanks for the comments. Christina, I'm inclined to agree that the lack of discussion re. internet access is a shortcoming to this entire conversation. There's arguably a glob...
Story Trek Commentary - 7 views
I just wanted to comment on Monday's class regarding the presentations about Story Trek. I thought it was very interesting to observe the different ways that groups had approached the task, and whi...
DH Workshop Next week? Day of DH - 4 views
I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the last workshop on the Day of DH that's supposed to happen next week?
Important new publishing model from DH - 8 views
April fools! haha
DH People over Projects - 2 views
Here is the link to Miriam Posner's blog post and my reaction to it on my blog: http://miriamposner.com/blog/commit-to-dh-people-not-dh-projects/ http://digitalatheart.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/d...
Project 4: Lansdowne Undead - 14 views
Small Project 4.0: Lansdowne Undead The Digital Humanities is understood to be a "culture that values collaboration" (Kirschenbaum 2011: 9) while investigating traditional social science and h...
Storytelling & Learning Through Video Games - 20 views
Interesting Tapestry. I can see it working magnificently in my language class to enhance reading and writing skills among students, with the possibility of peer review and editing. I saw a questio...
Public (Insert academic discipline here) + Digital Humanities - 20 views
Interesting comments and thought provoking questions since it seems the direction is heading towards renaming DH based on the aforementioned arguments. I would say similar to the emergence of new m...
Canadian diplomats should use social media more, foreign minister says - 6 views
Hmm, seems like some leather-stretching of the Harper-administered muzzle, which is clearly on display in a quote like this: "The Canadian Press reported this week that bureaucrats at Industry Cana...
Three questions to consider from Dr. Chris Eaket - 5 views
What are some personal mythologies linked to particular places? What are some of the dangers (think post-structuralism) of a re-enchantment of the world? How might they be avoided? final questio...