Monthly Archives: April 2012

Proposing Sessions FAQ – part two

We have gotten a few questions about session proposals that aren’t covered on the Proposing a Session page or in the original FAQ, so here’s a follow-up: How can I see all the sessions that have already been proposed? The … Continue reading

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Web Superheros and Digital Humanities: What is the Connection?

I was intrigued by an article on Fast Company’s blog titled “Content Curators Are the New Superheros of the Web.” The author describes the fast growing trend of curation, as demonstrated by the increasing popularity of Pinterest. He defines curation … Continue reading

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What Do We Want for E-Books?

Last year e-book sales on Amazon outstripped “dead tree” book sales. Currently, digital textbooks are only about 2.5% of the $5.5 billion annual market in new textbook sales, but in three years it’s expected to be nearly 20%. The Kindles … Continue reading

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How Video Games are Changing Education

Disucss this chart: www.onlinecolleges.net/2011/08/25/how-video-games-are-changing-education/ News from Online Colleges, August 25, 2011

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Game Based Learning

Topics: using video games to teach, what’s taught in game and out of game, discussions or assignments & online affinity spaces and how to create them. I am the coordinator for a video game project funded by the NEH. (meet-the-earthworks-builders.posterous.com/) This … Continue reading

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Critical Emotion/Pathos/Affect and Digital Technology

Proposed By: Will Kurlinkus and Katie DeLuca From Joseph Weizenbaum’s shock that the secretarial staff were nightly confessing their innermost emotions to his ELIZA program to Vannevar Bush’s warning that “If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of … Continue reading

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Digital storytelling with iPhones/iPads

I recently attended a workshop at OSU with Joe Lambert of the Center for Digital Storytelling (who’s been to OSU several times and from whom I’ve several previous workshops.)  This one was focused on stories of place, using mobile devices, … Continue reading

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Session on Peer Review

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, in the first chapter of her highly stimulating book, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy (which is available online), argues that peer review is at the center of all the work of humanists in … Continue reading

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A national archive for digital story telling

I’ve been working on collecting digital stories from Columbus community members since the spring of 2009. The Knowledge Bank folks have been very generous and provided a portal for the work completed in the Hilltop area of town and will, … Continue reading

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