Monthly Archives: February 2013
Session Proposal: Educational technology in language and culture acquisition: LinguaeLive.ca
We want to exchange ideas about educational technology in language and cultural acquisition. Using our peer language tandem web platform, LinguaeLive.ca as an example, we will share our own experiences with transnational peer learning. We want to encourage discussion and … Continue reading
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Social media and confession
In the History of Sexuality vol. 1, Foucault argued that rather than living in the shadows of a repressive history– a Victorian hangover that can only be cured by the soothing tonic of free discussion and disclosure–we are living in … Continue reading
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Session proposal – Digital Tools and Dissertation Work
I would like to propose a session to discuss the ways in which different digital tools could be incorporated into both the research and dissemination of a dissertation. I already take advantage of things like online text databases, digitized images, … Continue reading
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[Session Proposal] Online Databases in the Humanities: Organizational Obstacles and Collaborative Solutions
We, Clare Barker, Mitchell King and Ian Longo, propose a talk session to discuss the issues of multiple online databases of texts in Digital Humanities. The field of Classics was an early adopter (in the ’70s and ’80s) of textual databases … Continue reading
Web-publishing Tools, Collaboration, Skills Development, and Project Management
I would like to propose a session on some of the open-source, web-based, web-publishing tools available that bridge cultural, scholarly, library and museum worlds, such as the open source platforms, Omeka, and Mukurtu. My own interest in this session is … Continue reading
Categories: Archives, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Digital Literacy, General, Libraries, Museums, Open Access, Project Management, Publishing, Research Methods, Scholarly Editions, Session Proposals
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Session Proposal – Fostering DH research: what’s an archives to do?
Jeremy Heil and I propose to talk about the role of Archives in DH projects and research. Primary sources are often the focus of much digital humanities work through digitization, transcription or analysis and as such we are interested in … Continue reading
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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and Infrared Photography
Clare joins us from Classics at Queen’s! I would like to learn more about photography and photo manipulation (photoshop). I don’t have that many skills to share because I am just starting out with graduate work, but my project involves … Continue reading
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Paper Twitter and Hypertextual Social Critique
Marc has already proposed a fantastic session on a “paper Twitter” and we’re delighted that he will be bringing his research and brain to THATCamp QueensU all the way from Littératures francophones et résonances médiatiques at Concordia! My name is … Continue reading
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Documenting Community Involvement Online
Sarah joins us from English at Queen’s! I am a third-year undergraduate student at Queen’s University, and especially enjoy studying literature from the Victorian Era. During the summer, I work for an organization that runs programs for children that involve … Continue reading
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