My Recent LoC.gov posts- Hydra’s Open Source Approach: An Interview with Tom Cramer May 13, 2013
- Historicizing the Digital for Digital Preservation Education: An Interview with Alison Langmead and Brian Beaton May 6, 2013
- Understanding User Generated Tags for Digital Collections: An Interview with Jennifer Golbeck May 1, 2013
- Born Digital Archival Materials at NYPL: An Interview with Donald Mennerich April 22, 2013
- Challenges in the Curation of Time Based Media Art: An Interview with Michael Mansfield April 9, 2013
- Nominations Now Open for the 2013 NDSA Innovation Awards April 4, 2013
- The Metadata Games Crowdsourcing Toolset for Libraries & Archives: An Interview with Mary Flanagan April 3, 2013
- Quest for the Critical E-dition: An interview with Leonardo Flores March 20, 2013
- Islandora’s Open Source Ecosystem and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Mark Leggott March 4, 2013
- Born Digital Folklore and the Vernacular Web: An Interview with Robert Glenn Howard February 22, 2013
- My Recent Play the Past Posts
- The Future of the Civil War through Gaming: Morgan’s Raid Video Game February 7, 2013
- It’s All About Meaningful Decisions: Game Design Toward Nuanced Historical Interpretation and Complexity February 5, 2013
- What Does Simony Say? An Interview with Ian Bogost December 13, 2012
- The New Science: Playing the Scientific Revolution September 27, 2012
- “No no no, that’s not the way it happened. Shall I start again?” July 24, 2012
- Playing at Slavery: Modding Colonization for Authenticity May 24, 2012
- Jamestown Adventure: Less is More May 15, 2012
- Guns, Germs, and Horses: Cultural Exchange in Sid Meier’s Colonization March 13, 2012
- if (!isNative()){return false;}: De-People-ing Native Peoples in Sid Meier’s Colonization March 1, 2012
- Playing with World Religion: What Religion Means in Civ IV February 16, 2012
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Category Archives: Education
Software as Scaffolding and Motivation and Meaning: The How and Why of Crowdsourcing
Libraries, archives and museums have a long history of participation and engagement with members of the public. I have previously suggested that it is best to think about crowdsourcing in cultural heritage as a form of public volunteerism, and that … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History
Tagged crowdsourcing, learning, motivation, psychology, scaffolding, tools
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The Crowd and The Library
Libraries, archives and museums have a long history of participation and engagement with members of the public. In a series of blog posts I am going to work to connects these traditions with current discussions of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Tools, Education, History
Tagged citizen archivist, crowdsourcing, digital libraries, motivation, public good
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The Value of Design Narratives: The Case of Environmental Detectives
In Please Write it Down: Design and Research in the Digital Humanities I suggested that there are some valuable ways of thinking about the connections between building/designing and creating knowledge and scholarship. In particular, I suggested that those interested in learning through building in … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Tools, Education
Tagged augmented reality, design, design based research, design narrative, digital humanities, methods, mobile, research, scholarship
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Techies You Decide! You’re either a Feminist or a Misogynist
I got caught up reading Margaret Robertson’s great post today, In Which I don’t try to write like a man. She describes how she has self-censored herself. How she has tried to frequently go out of her way to de-gender … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Games
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Newbs, N00bs and Elitists: Neologisms for learners and teachers in open online communities
The openness of online communities is one of the things that make them so exciting. Anyone, anywhere, can create an account and start participating. The more I think about some of the research I did on RPGmakerVX.net the more I think … Continue reading
My First Citation! Not my writing but my gaming?
Well it’s happened. I have been cited for my work! While it would be fun to say that it was one of my fantastic research articles, it is actually for my chops as a Druid a few years back in … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Games
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The digital humanities as the DIY humanities
A few months back I participated in my forth year of the humanities and technology camp at the Center for History and New Media. This year the conference ended with a bake off. Many of the definitions of the digital … Continue reading
On Writing, Making and Mining: Digital History Class Projects
This is the forth post in a multi-post series reflecting on the digital history course I taught last semester at American University. For more on this you can read initial post about the course, the course syllabus, my posts on … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Tools, Education, History
Tagged making, mining, teaching, thinking, writing
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Digital History: The Course That Never Ends
This is the third post in a multi-post series reflecting on the digital history course I taught this Semester at American University. For more on this you can read initial post about the course, the course syllabus, my first post … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Teaching
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Why A Public Course Group Blog? Reflections on My Digital History Course
This spring I had the pleasure of teaching a digital history seminar at American University. This post is the first in a multi-post series reflecting on teaching the course. For some context, I have posted the course description bellow. For more on this … Continue reading