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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Mining Old News For Fresh Historcal Insight
Friday, September 4th, 2009This week I had the honor of participating in the Library of Congress’ national strategy for digital news summit. The Library gathered together a diverse mix of corporate and public archivists, representatives from public and private foundations, and librarians to discuss the digital future of news. The conversations focused on both how to preserve born [...]
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Distributed Research Tool Instruction: Think Interlibrary Loan for Training
Sunday, May 17th, 2009The ever growing heap of neat digital research tools is simultaneously fascinating and problematic. Some of this stuff really has the potential to be transformational, to provide new avenues for scholarship, and teaching, but the sheer quantity of tools makes it a bit difficult for scholars and teachers to know where to start from, and [...]
Keep Reading » 5Recap 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 » 1Export from Zotero to Librarything or Goodreads
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008One of Zotero’s many virtues is that it is a really robust container for bibliographic data. If you want to spend a little time playing with the Citation Style Language that Zotero uses it is actually pretty easy to get some useful data out of Zotero to do all sorts of fun things with. One [...]
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 » 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 [...]
Keep Reading » 6Children’s Books By The Numbers: Or Two Things I Learned From Franco Moretti
Friday, November 16th, 2007A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of reading Franco Moretti’s Graphs Maps and Trees. If you haven’t read it I highly recommend it as a truly compelling exploration of what individuals interested in the history of literature can glean by counting. After a bit of thought I am confident that some of his [...]
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