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: thoroughly enjoyed "Trailer For Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever " http://bit.ly/aXw3nZ
- tjowens: Just posted some preliminary results from my survey of the RPG Maker Community http://bit.ly/c6qhm5 (having a ton of fun with this project)
- tjowens: Becoming a fan http://becomeadfan.ytmnd.com/ It is always good to see YTMND deliver exactly what YTMND is supposed to deliver.
- tjowens: Just got into Seattle. Getting things together for the Zotero workshop tomorrow.
Marie Curie on Ada Lovelace Day
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009Today 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, 2009Tonight 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.
Keep Reading » 0Omeka Not Just For Exhibits: Using Omeka To Build A Colaborative Directory
Thursday, March 19th, 2009While 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 [...]
Keep Reading » 2Strategy and Scope: Readings In Digital Humanities Project Management
Saturday, March 7th, 2009One 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. [...]
Keep Reading » 1Recap from first Triannual Zotero Trainers Workshop
Sunday, March 1st, 2009Last 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 [...]
Keep Reading » 1A Few More Site Ideas For Playing History: This Time From Mega Man
Monday, February 23rd, 2009One more round of site theme ideas. I think I might really like this round. Do folks like these more or less then the last batch? I did not fill in all the content for these, just a few boxes and headings to give a sense of the concept. Each of them would take a [...]
Keep Reading » 3Working With Colors And Style For playinghistory.org
Thursday, February 19th, 2009I realize I am getting a bit ahead of myself but I get excited about playing with the visual style of the project. Which do you think are the best? Or should I just scrap it and do something completely different?
Keep Reading » 8Darwin, History, and Visualizations
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Two weeks ago our Creating History in New Media class had a great chance to chat with historian David Staley about his book Computers Visualization and History and Scott McCloud’s book Understanding Comics. New media provides some exciting places to take conversations about visualizations in history, but one of my other take-a-ways from the conversation [...]
Keep Reading » 1Science Grows On Trees: The History of Science and Technology Acording to Video Games
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009I think historians and sociologists of science might be surprised to learn that video game designers spend a considerable amount of time and energy building playable models of the history of science and technology. In game design circles these systems are commonly referred to as “Technology Trees“. Below is an example of one of these [...]
Keep Reading » 6Visualization and History: Hint, It’s Not About Pictures
Sunday, February 1st, 2009If your into history and computers, and looking for a mildly trippy read, break open a bottle of wine and spend three of four hours reading through David Staley’s Computers Visualization and History. Staley’s central, somewhat provocative, contention is that there is nothing natural or automatic about historians choice to communicate through writing. Like some [...]
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