Submitted by pdp on Jul 06, 2009, 11:01 AM

Call For Papers

The Past?s Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities

A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University

Submitted by Ray Uzwyshyn on Jun 08, 2009, 10:02 AM
A remix of a digital video originally done for a HASTAC Forum (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) on digital scholarship. http://uwf.edu/ruzwyshyn/Raysvideos/digitalscholarship.html Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQS6jpMvcwI

Submitted by Todd_Presner on Jun 03, 2009, 01:16 AM

The UCLA Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities has launched a second version of the

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 04, 2009, 02:03 PM
It hasn't been very often, if ever, in American history that the mother of the President of the United States was a scholar and an academic.  Congratulations to Duke University Press for publishing Against the Odds:  Village Industry in Indonesia, by the late S. Ann Dunham.  Duke U Press Editorial Director Ken Wissoker notes:  ?It is a great privilege for Duke University Press to be publishing this remarkable work by Ann Dunham.  Her global perspective and obvious respect for other people?s intelligence and self-direction is a model we all can learn from. Her children clearly have!?

Submitted by AnanthTS on Apr 22, 2009, 02:33 AM

"What is a man without energy? Nothing--nothing at all. Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!"

So spoke Mark Twain and I'm

Submitted by Jentery Sayers on Apr 20, 2009, 05:07 PM

Today's first session,  "Innovations in Participatory Learning, Social Change, and Digital Democracy," at HASTAC III started the conference (which, per Cathy Davidson's introduction to the session, is the biggest HASTAC conference yet) with some brief introductions of, and examples from, four 2008 Digital Media and Learning competition winners.  Here, I just want

Submitted by Staci Shultz on Apr 20, 2009, 03:21 PM
A terrific talk on teaching with RPGs, Facebook, and Second Life.

Submitted by papertalker on Apr 14, 2009, 05:04 PM
I am posting this essay because, written a year or so after Columbine, it rings true now more than ever.

As violence erupts, kids are left to their own devices-- the ones with the guns and the pent-up anger lash out for ?attention? and ?take control? because they?ve been helpless victims of bullying or familial abuse. The other kids stand by like proverbial deer frozen in the headlights. Neither their peers nor adults at school can be trusted. The code of silence is not just for kids. It's school culture?s state of the art. Administrations come down hard with the lid when violence erupts, but there is no desire to dig for the root causes. Why? Because down deep they know that life at their school is a big part of the problem.

 

Submitted by jonippolito on Apr 09, 2009, 12:24 PM
Academia's goal may be the free exchange of ideas, but up to now many universities have been wary--if not downright dismissive--of their professors using the Internet and other digital media to supercharge that exchange. Yet in a signal that digital scholarship is the future, the latest issue of MIT's Leonardo magazine showcases the recently approved academic guidelines of the University of Maine's New Media Department as a model for other universities to consider.

Submitted by jchall1960 on Mar 22, 2009, 04:54 PM
Creativity and Play Across the Disciplines. . . . Conference at the University of Alabama