Category Archives: Session Proposals

Beyond Wikipedia: Wikis and Archives in Teaching

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Christine Yao

In my teaching I have designed assignment sequences that combine the use of wikis and archival research. In doing so, I intend to introduce my students to the critical dimensions of collaborative digital forms of knowledge production as well as … Continue reading →

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Sounding Out the Humanities

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Kristie Schlauraff

As someone who works on Sound Studies, I am constantly looking for new ways to effectively incorporate sound into my teaching. In the past I have asked my students to listen to podcasts like Radiolab and This American Life and … Continue reading →

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Intro to Zotero

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Patrick Williams

In thinking about the Creative Uses of Zotero discussion I proposed, I realized it might be worthwhile to have an informal intro session for people who are new users first. So, I’m proposing a quick and dirty Zotero workshop. Attendees … Continue reading →

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Digital Projects: The Benefits and Challenges of Collaboration Online

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Mia Tootill

Potentially linking in with (perhaps preceding) Thomas Beebee’s session on new projects for the NEH grant, I would like to hold a session on current digital projects. I am contributing to a couple of (open access) web resources within my … Continue reading →

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Writing & Beyond with Scrivener

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Chris Hanson

As a relatively recent convert to Scrivener, I feel that I am only starting to scratch the surface of some of the features that it offers. Despite its lack of a seamless interface with Zotero (another tool with which I … Continue reading →

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Lunchtime Dork Shorts on Friday

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Patrick Williams

As you may have seen on the tentative schedule, we are planning to have a session of Dork Shorts concurrent with our lunch session on Friday. What are Dork Shorts? Dork shorts, known in some corners as “lightning talks,” are … Continue reading →

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Can I Trust You? Exploring Social Deduction Games

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Scott Nicholson

This proposal is in the PLAY category, as we will play some games. One genre of games that is popular in the tabletop games space, but not in the digital space, are social deduction games.  Growing out of the public … Continue reading →

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Text Analysis: Hows and Whys

Posted on April 7, 2014 by cforster

A comment on another proposal mentions algorithmic text analysis. I would love a session focused on how people are taking advantage of digital tools to deal with particularly textual information and questions of textual (or even literary) analysis. This could include tools … Continue reading →

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New NEH grant: “Digital Projects for the Public”

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Thomas Beebee

I would be honored to facilitate a session where ideas are discussed that might lead to grant applications for the following: NEH has announced a new funding program titled “Digital Projects for the Public:” “The Digital Projects for the Public … Continue reading →

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proposal: Social Network Analysis using NodeXL

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Alexander Nakhimovsky

I can present for discussion a recent attempt at Colgate to apply the concepts and technology of Social Network Analysis (SNA) to data in the Humanities. We use NodeXL (Hansen et al, 2011), a relatively recent addition to SNA software, … Continue reading →

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