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CFP: "The Past's Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities"

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

New Arbitrage Opportunities for Image Search: Metaphors, Game Metadata, Common Sense

Submitted by Ray Uzwyshyn on Jun 16, 2009, 12:24 PM
A new opportunity for image search is presented by leveraging emergent image retrieval paradigms (Google Image Labeler) with New Interface Possiblities (Cool Iris) for the next stage of Image Search: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-09/JunJul09_Uzwyshyn.pdf 

Communicating Digitally With Students

Submitted by Michael Widner on May 14, 2009, 09:58 PM
I came across two items of interest recently, both treating the ways in which we communicate with students. It looks like online office hours are catching on. Stanford now has professors holding office hours on F

Duke U Press Publishes Study by Obama's Mama

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!?

Mining the Military-Academic-Industrial Complex in a Poetic-Serious Fashion

Submitted by nknouf on Apr 20, 2009, 11:06 PM

Sadly I was not able to attend the HASTAC conference, but I wanted to post some information about a current project of mine...

As we now hear by some commentators that the "worst" of the so-called financial "crisis" "might" be over, we have to acknowledge the difficulty of squaring

Writing Wikipedia Pages in 9-12 Classroom

Submitted by Alexa Garvoille on Apr 06, 2009, 11:04 AM
After editing Wikipedia pages with grad colleagues at Duke and simultaneously student teaching in Durham Public Schools, I've combined the two in this paper for the AACE-EDMEDIA conference. Abstract: In response to current anxieties over students? ability to critically evaluate internet-based sources, we propose a secondary curriculum that uses Wikipedia as a platform to pose questions about information verifiability, ethical use of technology, and the democratic role of internet-users.