Category Archives: Digital Life
Reflections on #SHEAR14
I just returned home from my most digitally enhanced annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) yet, so it only makes sense that I capture my reflections on that experience in digital form. As … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Life, Historian in the World
Tagged Digital Humanities, dooo, fi, Philadelphia, SHEAR, twitter
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Discussing My Cliometric Odyssey
Next Wednesday, April 16th, I will be talking with the Department of History and American Studies about an ongoing cliometrical research experiment I have been undertaking this academic year. With a research team of two outstanding senior history majors, Leah … Continue reading
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A Month on my RSS Drip
As part of the Domain of One’s Own Faculty Initiative this spring, I began to explore the world of RSS feeds. Perhaps my favorite part of the DoOOFI was its focus on managing incoming flows of digital information. The immersive … Continue reading
Utopianism and Media, Then and Now
This week’s readings on the future of the internet seem deeply steeped in the utopianism of internet culture. This utopianism has always struck me as the most salient feature of writing about internet culture, especially by those authors who are … Continue reading
The Accidental Digital Scholar
Reading through the Weller piece for this weeks’ DoOO discussion, I realized that I have become something of a digital scholar without entirely intending it. When I began to form my scholarly identity in my early graduate school years, “digital … Continue reading
Crowdsoucing Project: Bad Historical Websites
On Wednesday, I will be leading a discussion in my undergraduate History Practicum seminar about learning to distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources on the wide-open Internet. The students have been assigned to bring in an example of a good … Continue reading
Analog Day, Digital Day
This week’s assignment to explore “personal learning networks” through social media came at an auspicious time. Unlike Jason and Dave, last week’s snow days freed up some time for me, because of the particular moment I was in for each of … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Life, The Aspiring Handyman
Tagged Analog Humanities, architecture, Brian, Digital Humanities, fi, Fredericksburg, historic district, PLN, TTRSS, twitter
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Making a Collaborative Reading Notes Wiki
This semester I am experimenting with using MediaWiki as a platform for the students in my History of Manhood in the US course to build a collaborative set of reading notes. After being less than completely satisfied with my Twitter … Continue reading
Twitter as an Academic Tool
This week’s assignment for the Domain of One’s Own Faculty Initiative is to explore online scholarly communities. I spent some time racking my brain trying to think up Early Americanist communities online, until I realized that I have been an … Continue reading
Teaching is About Relationships
This week’s readings were all about using technology to open up teaching and learning and to take advantage of the “abundance” of teaching materials, expertise, and networks. These pieces all strike me as fine, as far as they go, but … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Life, Teaching
Tagged fi, instructional technology, twitter, umwdomains
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