On Monday, I will be meeting with Bob Stein, founder and co-director of the Institute for the Future of the Book, to conduct an interview that will later be published in Kairos. If you think you don’t know Stein’s work, you’re probably wrong: over a long career, he has worked on a number of tools [...]
Hacking Together Egalitarian Educational Communities; Some Notes on the Looking for Whitman Project
When I discuss the “Looking for Whitman” project, a multi-campus experiment in digital pedagogy sponsored by the NEH Office of the Digital Humanities, I often emphasize the place-based structure of the project. As part of it, four courses were offered in institutions located in cities in which Walt Whitman lived; students spent the Fall 2009 [...]
Onward and Outward
“All goes onward and outward . . . . and nothing collapses” – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855) Last week’s student conference in Camden brought “Looking for Whitman” to a rousing, poignant close. Four months after the classes involved in the project had ended, students from the University of Mary Washington, Rutgers-Camden, and City [...]
Fall 2009 Talks
I’m excited to announce the following speaking engagements for the Fall 2009 semester, most of them stemming from the Looking for Whitman and CUNY Academic Commons projects: Invited Lectures: Norwegian elearning Research and Educational Network (REN) Delegation Visit to New York City Conference Program “Looking for Whitman: Networking the Digital Humanities” Thursday October 15 Affinia [...]
Against Learning Management Systems
In a recent post on BavaTuesdays, Jim Groom called down a plague upon two corporate producers of learning management systems, Blackboard and Desire2Learn. After years of fighting Blackboard’s unreasonable patent lawsuits, Desire2Learn made news by proposing a donation of one million dollars to educational causes on the condition that Bb drop its lawsuit. The premise [...]
Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities
I’m excited to be taking part in the University of Alberta’s Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities project, which is documenting a single day in the lives of digital humanists around the globe. My own DayofDH blog is here. If you’re interested in following the project via RSS, you can follow the main [...]
On Bucking the System
. . . almost every defendant, even the most simple-minded among them, starts thinking up suggestions for improvement from the moment the trial starts, and in doing so often wastes time and energy that would be better spent in other ways. The only proper approach is to learn to accept existing conditions. Even if it [...]
MLA 2008 Recap: Part 1 – The Rise of the Digital MLA
“Untitled,” The Tattered Coat (With apologies to IHE) Three days after returning home from the MLA Conference in San Francisco, and I’m still coming down, still thrumming with the newfound sense of energy, purpose, and camaraderie that I found there. Who would have thought? Certainly, the annual conference of literature and language professors is not [...]
Putting the Steam Back in the Punk
Source: kaitlyn tikkun I ushered in the New Year in Brooklyn at Pratt’s wonderful New Year’s Eve Steam Whistle Blow. What a great event! Best wishes to you for a happy 2009! Update: Here’s a YouTube vid of the steam whistle experience (and, yes, the people taking photos of each other combined with kids [and [...]
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