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Maps and mapping
I’d like to propose a session around questions of how mapping & design tools can help us both create and represent research on narratives and sociocultural structures whose impact is very real and significant but is often ‘naturalized’ as to … Continue reading
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Digital Humanities Glossary
Let’s crowdsource a glossary of digital humanities jargon. One of the challenges for digital humanities newbies, is all the jargon. Help the DH community figure out what it’s jargon is. When you hear a term you don’t recognize write it … Continue reading
Session ideas- ethical considerations
I’d like to spend some time thinking about the ethical considerations of asking students to use various online resources as part of the coursework. By ethics, I mean two things: 1. Access– what hardware, software, and sites can we reasonably … Continue reading
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Session Idea: Bridging Digital Gaps
In light of the proposed topics regarding digital natives and digital aliens, I’m interested in a discussion about how to better engage students who don’t own devices (laptops/phones) or who aren’t comfortable with tools like Twitter or blogs into an … Continue reading
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Session idea: Web-based co-curricular/extracurricular writing support
Students graduating from liberal arts colleges should be able to write about complex ideas clearly, succinctly, and gracefully. How can writing centers and academic supports centers best focus web-based tools and resources (screencasts, handouts, podcasts/audio, OWLs, presentations, IM, others?) to aid those … Continue reading
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HASTAC
Most of you are probably aware of this resource, but I highly recommend it, if you’re not. HASTAC is the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technologies Advanced Collaboratory. Here’s a link to their website. They have a new Scoop It site … Continue reading
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Session Ideas–Dawn Dietrich
Let me first say that I’m very interested in the general topics (1-5) you proposed to get us started! I’d like to see us discuss all of them, if possible. A few thoughts and links to these topics: Critical Code … Continue reading
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Digital archives, history, and memory
The imperative of the age is not only to keep everything, to preserve every sign (even when we are not quite sure what it is we are remembering), but also to fill archives…The sheer mass of material changes the significance … Continue reading
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annotation of texts in the digital realm
One of the perennial jobs of humanists is the annotation of older (usually canonical) texts with notes and information for readers about cultural context, interpretive perspectives, grammatical elucidations, etc. I am a classicist interested in commentary on ancient texts presented digitally, … Continue reading
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Post your session ideas
We’d like all of the THATCamp LAC participants to post any ideas for sessions that you’d like to see happen during the conference to this website. Remember that a THATCamp is based on 2 different types of activities. 1. Workshops … Continue reading
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