Monthly Archives: February 2012

Collaboration (resources and session ideas)

[I’ve had this post in the works for a couple of days now, and Blake Wilder beat me to the punch with an interesting session proposal. I hope the thoughts and links below will inform his and other sessions. –Melanie] … Continue reading

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Call for ‘Virtual Campers’

Your friendly THATCamp organizers received an inquiry from someone who can’t attend the unconference itself, but wants to participate in the discussion on the site beforehand, and stay in the loop on digital humanities developments afterwards. Our response? What a … Continue reading

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Collaborative Creation – a “writing” panel

I’ve been using both iMovie and prezi as platforms for composition assignments in my classes. I’m wondering if we could get a a group together and collectively compose some short project in one of these platforms. Obviously there would be … Continue reading

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Proposing sessions FAQ

**4/24/12: We have added an additional FAQ post.** As you can see from the Participants page, THATCamp OSU is well over half full! We expect more registrations to keep trickling in over the next couple of months, but in the … Continue reading

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Women Writers Online + Women’s History Month

Julia Flanders, Director of the Women Writers Project at Brown University (and the facilitator of THATCamp OSU!) recently announced that Women Writers Online will be free and open to the public for the month of March, in celebration of Women’s … Continue reading

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Google and Digital Humanities

As registrations are rolling in, how about another post about digital humanities? (If you haven’t yet registered, you can do so here.) Think Google is a giant, faceless behemoth concerned only with search results and AdSense? You’re only partly right. … Continue reading

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Registration quirks

***Update: Amanda French at THATCamp.org reports that the bugs in the registration plugin have been fixed as of 2/22, so new registrants should get the appropriate messages and correct passwords. If you are still having problems, please let us know.*** … Continue reading

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Registration now open for THATCamp OSU!

THATCamp OSU will take place Saturday, April 28th, from 8am to 5pm, in William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library. If you are interested in the intersection of technology and the humanities, and enjoy interacting with your colleagues in an informal, unconference … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities resources

For those of you wondering what digital humanities (DH) is, you’re in good company. Even die-hard digital humanists sometimes have trouble agreeing on a definition of the field. However, since we are going to be talking about what DH means … Continue reading

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Save the date for THATCamp OSU

Registration for THATCamp OSU will officially open on February 20, 2012, and the call for participants will go out later that week. In the meantime, save the date (4/28, 8am-5pm), and spread the word!

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