Category Archives: General
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
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
[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
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
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
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
Computer Vision, Robotics, and AI In an OpenSource Box
Kevin studies Computer Engineering at Queen’s and will join us at THATCamp: I am a big user/creator and general fan of technology and I want to listen and learn about how people in a very different discipline interact with and … Continue reading
Free Software, Free Culture and Getting To Know Humanists
Henry joins us from Mathematics at Queen’s! I’d like to understand more about the humanities side of “digital humanities”, since I feel that I have more understanding of the digital part than the humanities part. My background: I’ve done a … Continue reading