Category Archives: Teaching

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 (https://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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Journal of Employability and The Humanities

Posted on 2007-02-27 by Gabriel Bodard

This call for papers was circulated by the HEA History, Classics, and Archaeology Subject Centre, but the journal, I believe, is being launched by the University of Central Lancashire. It strikes me that Humanities Computing departments that teach digital humanities … Continue reading →

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