Favorite THATCamp Posts

My entry for the Maker Challenge is WP DPLA, a WordPress plugin for displaying related items from the Digital Public Library on your blog posts. The DPLA has lots of cool content, and WP DPLA is a way to help […] Read more on the original site...

Over the last 3 years I have been the unofficial keeper of the THATCamp Google Documents folder. After each THATCamp I could keep track of, I tried to collect all the Google Docs available publicly into a public […] Read more on the original site...

In American naval history, officer promotions have gotten a lot of offhanded comments but little substantive analysis (one exception I just found: Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes, by Donald Chisholm, a book I look […] Read more on the original site...

In the rich soup that is digital humanities, there are a few ingredients that lend a special flavor. One of these is collaboration: far from being taboo, collaboration is the encouraged mode of working. Another […] Read more on the original site...

When the grant funding for the THATCamp project runs out at the end of March 2014, my position as THATCamp Coordinator will also end. I personally am not too worried about the future of THATCamp: it's already […] Read more on the original site...

Sustainability hangs like an albatross over many DH projects. Funding is short term, projects come and go. Granting foundations have made it abundantly clear that they expect continuity measures beyond the period […] Read more on the original site...

I was really inspired by all of the limericks that everyone shared on the first day so I've been writing poetry through out THATCamp. It's things that I've experienced or I thought of and I'd love to […] Read more on the original site...

Peter Leonard, Lauren Tilton, and I put together an interactive browser for images; using d3 and html5, it lets you take a large set of images and their metadata and arrange them graphically in the browser. It […] Read more on the original site...

Visualizations, visualizations everywhere, but what do people see when they look at them? It's hard to know what people think they see when they look at visualizations. So I propose a session where we look […] Read more on the original site...

Long long ago.... Once upon a time... Digital storytelling is buzzy right now, and I think it would be interesting to gather and talk about what that means for the way humanists communicate with the public. […] Read more on the original site...

In a recent essay, “Critical Theory and the Mangle of Digital Humanities,” Todd Presner identifies as the core Utopian idea of the Digital Humanities, “participation without condition.” For Presner this concept […] Read more on the original site...

As an instruction librarian, I have been doing a lot of experiments to try to make my classroom more interactive. Clickers and Poll Everywhere haven't worked for me. My classes are usually very discussion-based, […] Read more on the original site...

In an effort to make a space for digital historians to communicate and collaborate, I created a "Commons in a Box" site: http://digitalhistorians.org/. Read more on the original site...

As a complement our discussions about new forms of scholarship and scholarly publication, I'd like to propose a session about how digital tools are already transforming the academic production of knowledge. […] Read more on the original site...

For the Maker Challenge, I present two network graphs of Isaac Hull's correspondence. These graphs are a visualization of the letterbook of Master Commandant Isaac Hull, of the U.S. brig Argus, from 1803 to the […] Read more on the original site...

THATCamp has opened up many opportunities for participants to share and develop skills in areas such as text mining, project management, material culture, and digital pedagogy (to mention just a few of the topics […] Read more on the original site...

"We tend to use technology to support, rather than transform, traditional modes of teaching and learning." "Publication in open access, electronic-only journals and publication in traditional print journals […] Read more on the original site...

I propose a conversation about incorporating multimedia assignments into humanities courses. As director of the University of Alabama Libraries’ Sanford Media Center, I’ve helped design and support a number of […] Read more on the original site...

As part of the Powerpoint Unhinged challenge, Matt Gold, Zach Coble and myself have put together a presentation/performance based on a title by Matt Gold. We'll see how it goes. Read more on the original site...

This workshop (Friday at 1:30) will be aimed at working through the practical and pedagogical choices about creating a digital history course. We will explore sample syllabi, discuss potential projects, survey […] Read more on the original site...