I am the community lead for the Zotero project at the Center for History and New Media and a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. I am interested in open source platforms for learning and research, games and learning, and the history of science education. Before coming to the CHNM I worked for the Games, Learning, and Society Conference.
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- tjowens: @samplereality Apparently every address I have been associated with does not contain enough information. How should that make me feel?
- tjowens: I just can't understand how each Pokemon can talk to eachother only using the syllables of their own names @clioweb
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The History Channel Manages To Drop Below Even The Lowest Of Expectations
Friday, November 28th, 2008I know the history channel is bad, but seriously. This is their afternoon line up. Three hours of hunting UFOs a show about the Antichrist “The Universe” and two hours on the secrets of body language.
Keep Reading » 0Making Book Labels With Zotero
Monday, November 24th, 2008To the left you can see a sample of some of my labeled books. It may not be particularly pretty, but those labels do exactly what I wan them to do. Display information, have only a limited chance to damage my books, and cost me practically nothing. In this post I will walk through how [...]
Keep Reading » 0Touching the National Mall
Thursday, November 20th, 2008I really like how you can tell just how frequently the Park’s services maps on the National mall are used by how worn the areas around the Lincoln Memorial and Washington monument have become. As you look at the worn spots around these two monuments you can picture the hundreds of thousands of tourists that [...]
Keep Reading » 0Cataloging Our Library in Zotero
Friday, November 14th, 2008Before starting my home cataloging project I really only used Zotero to grab individual items, this was my first time trying to look-up large numbers of items at once. I am happy to report that I came up with a work flow that let me run through about fifty books every ten minutes. I found [...]
Keep Reading » 0Using Zotero as a Personal Library Catalog
Sunday, November 9th, 2008My wife and I have a lot of books, tons of books. So many books that I am sometimes surprised to find books I didn’t even know we had. Over the years I have tried to organize them in ways that make sense to me. This approach has failed utterly and completely. I have now [...]
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