Bio

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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The new fridge We met a mantis Great day for a walk to the farmers market Words from our former fridge Col. Boggs flexing for Dolly Playing glassware Jim proved us wrong Bowser can't believe Herodotus Zelda round the office

Marie Curie on Ada Lovelace Day

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Today is Ada Lovelace Day,  an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. From their website, ‘Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognized. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines.” I think the day is a great idea, and it [...]

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Sitemaps and Wireframes: Playing History

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Tonight in my Creating History with New Media class were workshoping our sitemaps and wireframes. I worked these up a few weeks ago, before we started building the live site, so some of this has already changed, but it is still worth sharing as part of the process. See the wireframe shots below.

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Omeka Not Just For Exhibits: Using Omeka To Build A Colaborative Directory

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

While Omeka is billed as a CMS for exhibiting cultural heritage projects it’s also a awesome platform for publishing collections of all sorts of stuff with rich metadata. Jim and I have been cracking away on our Playing History project and I thought I would share some of our experience working with and modifying Omeka [...]

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Strategy and Scope: Readings In Digital Humanities Project Management

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

One of the first steps in constructing a digital humanities project is to define your strategy and project scope. This week in our creating history and new media class we had a great discussion about a topic most of the class had not really considered, what I would call project management in the digital humanities. [...]

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Recap from first Triannual Zotero Trainers Workshop

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Last week I had the pleasure of running the first in Zotero’s triannual (that’s three times a year) workshops for Zotero trainers (looking for a better name for “trainer”). I had a great time, and I think everyone left with a nice balance of practical next-steps for making Zotero work at their own institutions and [...]

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