We’ve reopened registration.

Due to overwhelming demand and a very benevolent Dean (thanks, Lou!), we’ve added 25 more slots for THATCamp LAC participants. That’s a grand total of 100 digital humanities geeks coming soon to St. Ed’s.

They’re going like hotcakes, so if you want to come, apply today

We’ve hit our absolute cap for attendees! Registration has been closed.

Thanks to all those who registered. You’ll be getting some more information in about a week.

We’re announcing a few new updates to the schedule.

Dinner has moved. We’re now going to Hill’s Cafe, an Austin landmark.
We’ll be having a chicken fried steak buffet (yum!) with some other options.
The cost will be < $10 – we’ll have more details on that soon.

The workshop schedule is almost finalized. You’ll have a chance to attend

• Regular expressions – extremely powerful text querying and mining
• Authoring ebooks and ejournals – create your own easily with open source software
• Creating iOS video games with ARIS – a free system for real world-based games with pedagogical possibilities
• Social tools in the classroom – an introduction to social bookmarking, wikis, photo sharing, and other social media

Didn’t have a chance to get your application in by the March 1st deadline?

Not to worry!

We’ve extended the deadline until March 23rd.

That’s 3 more weeks for you to put together that stunning application and join us in beautiful Austin for a great weekend of geeking out.

We’re rapidly developing the schedule for THATCamp LAC. And it’s looking like you’re going to have access to some great opportunities!

Saturday night

Dinner at Stubb’s Barbeque

It’s an Austin landmark on 6th Street.
You’ll have a chance for some darn good brisket, ribs, or smoked quail.

Workshops

We’re planning out the workshops that you can attend. No absolutes yet, but it’s looking like:

000000;">Regular Expressions: Take your text searching beyond simple wildcards. Learn some serious text querying possibilities from a seasoned pro.

Publishing e-books and e-journals: Learn how to create your own e-books and e-journals for a variety of platforms, all with opensource software.

Create iOS5 games: Learn the basics of creating a digital scavenger hunt game for the iOS platform using easy and intuitive software.

Social tools in the classroom: Discover power tips for using social media in the classroom. We’re not talking Facebook and Twitter – we’re talking social bookmarking, wikis, browser extensions, website overlays, and more!

Sessions

And, as always, we’ll have on-the-fly sessions about anything and everything you’ve wanted to know about technology, liberal arts, and the digital humanities.

Come ready to talk about

• social media for education
• e-book and paperless classrooms
• student-driven research
• digital humanities research in SLACs
• collaboration between institutions, departments, and non-academics
• whatever else may interest you about the digital humanities

From June 1-3, St. Edward’s University will host the 2012 THATCamp for Liberal Arts Colleges.

If you’re interested in the humanities, technology, or liberal arts colleges, you should attend.

But is THATCamp LAC right for you? Are you:

• A humanities professor who uses new technologies in your classes or research?
• A humanities professor who would like to try using new technologies?
• An IT professional at a university who works with humanities faculty and staff?
• A librarian who works in the humanities?
• A non-traditional humanist who is interested in new technologies?
• An IT professional in industry who is interested in the humanities?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, THATCamp LAC is right for you.

This particular THATCamp is titled for Liberal Arts Colleges. But that’s a bit of a misnomer. While we will primarily be academics at LACs, we will also be librarians, IT professionals employed by universities, IT-related professionals in industry, and people doing humanities work in non-academic settings. And we won’t all be tech savvy. Yes, a lot of us live and breathe through our iPads and Linux boxes. But a lot of us will be just starting into the technological realm. If you’re interested at all in using technology, you qualify to join us.

At THATCamp LAC, you’ll get to participate in an “unconference” where you can chat with others like you. The dynamic schedule, voted on by attendees, will let you decide what you want to talk about, and let you change those topics on the fly. As the main THATCamp site puts it, “An unconference is to a conference what a seminar is to a lecture; going to an unconference is like being a member of an improv troupe where going to a conference is (mostly) like being a member of an audience.”

At THATCamp, you’ll also have the opportunity to attend workshops – training sessions where you can learn new software, strategies, and theories.

For more information on THATCamps, visit the main THATCamp page at

thatcamp.org