Category Archives: Teaching

EpiDoc Summer School, July 14th-18th, 2008

Posted on 2008-04-23 by Gabriel Bodard

The Centre for Computing in the Humanties, Kings College London, is again offering an EpiDoc Summer School, on July 14th-18th, 2008. The training is designed for epigraphers or papyrologists (or related text editors such as numismatists, sigillographers, etc.) who would … Continue reading →

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Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future (report)

Posted on 2008-01-20 by Gabriel Bodard

The British Library and JISC commissioned the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER) at UCL to produce a report on Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future. It’s well worth reading the full reportin PDF … Continue reading →

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Learn a foreign language on the cheap

Posted on 2007-08-16 by scaife

from Lifehacker: The No Thick Manuals wiki details how to learn a language efficiently using two free, open source applications. The first is jVLT (java Vocabulary Learning Tool), a completely cross platform flash card application. The second is StarDict, a … Continue reading →

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Top 100 Alt Search Engine list

Posted on 2007-08-04 by smahony

I saw last year’s Top 100 posted here from Read/WriteWeb. They’ve just put out this year’s Top 100. The author says: Some of them did not even exist a year ago. One of my goals is to show my readers … Continue reading →

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ccLearn: Creative Commons education division

Posted on 2007-07-28 by Gabriel Bodard

An interesting development for teaching materials and collaboration protocols: Creative Commons is pleased to announce the launch of a new division focused on education: ccLearn. ccLearn is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning … Continue reading →

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100+ million word corpus of American English (1920s-2000s)

Posted on 2007-06-25 by smahony

Saw this on Humanist. Anything out there and also freely available for UK English? A new 100+ million word corpus of American English (1920s-2000s) is now freely available at: http://corpus.byu.edu/time/ The corpus is based on more than 275,000 articles in … Continue reading →

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Text Mining for Historians (workshop)

Posted on 2007-05-14 by Gabriel Bodard

Just announced by the Methods Network: TEXT MINING FOR HISTORIANS workshop at University of Glasgow 17 – 18 July 2007 A workshop organized by Zoe Bliss, AHDS History and the Association for History and Computing UK (AHC-UK) Texts are central … Continue reading →

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EpiDoc Summer School, 11-15 June, 2007

Posted on 2007-05-13 by scaife

Over the last few years an international group of scholars has been developing a set of conventions for marking up ancient documents in XML for publication and interchange. The EpiDoc Guidelines started from the case of inscriptions, but the principles … Continue reading →

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Stop teaching historians to use computers!

Posted on 2007-05-08 by Tom Elliott

Bill Turkel has started what looks to be an important and potentially influential thread on the nexus of history and the digital. His opening salvo: Teaching history students how to use computers was a really good idea in the early … Continue reading →

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Join the Wikipedia Debate

Posted on 2007-03-28 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen at Academic Commons: This coming Thursday (29 March 2007), the first Language Lab Unleashed! of the spring will feature Don Wyatt (chair of the Department of History at Middlebury College), Elizabeth Colantoni (Professor of Classics at Oberlin College), Laura … Continue reading →

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The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

Posted on 2007-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen at Academic Commons: The folks at the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory aka HASTAC (http://hastac.org) have posted a draft of a paper entitled “The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age.”  The paper will evolve through … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia editing as teaching tool

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Gabriel Bodard

A wonderful suggestion in a comment on Cathy Davidson’s letter (that Tom blogged here a few days ago): Thanks for your great column. I’ve used the “stubs” feature of Wikipedia to generate a list of 120 topics relating to ancient … Continue reading →

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Wikis and Blogs in Education

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in the Creative Commons Feed: “The wiki is the center of my classroom” That’s a quote from Wikis and Blogs in Education, one of three educational remixes from students of open content pioneer David Wiley. The other two are … Continue reading →

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Middlebury Wikigate Revisited

Posted on 2007-03-20 by Tom Elliott

Back in January, I made some hooting noises and pointed at Jimmy Wales in the context of the tempest-in-a-teapot that erupted after the Middlebury College History Department added Wikipedia to its list of works students may not cite in papers. … Continue reading →

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CC Learn

Posted on 2007-03-09 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in the Creative Commons blog today: A new division of Creative Commons, provisionally called CC Learn, will focus on education, broadly defined — from kindergarten to graduate school, to lifelong learning. The mission of this new division will be … Continue reading →

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