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...this blog is obsessively directed at profiling digital humanities developments in a cultural, social, and technical sense and in terms of books and applications...it is an aggregation or 'meta' style blog with the occasional commentary
Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.
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Category Archives: pedagogy
Morning Coffee with Craig: Do you have time to think?
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What is Participatory Culture and Web2.0 ?
Thanks to Henry Jenkins and Howard Rheingold (link to a USC Annenberg Centre’s blog) We have also identified a set of core social skills and cultural competencies that young people should acquire if they are to be full, active, creative, and ethical participants in this emerging (online) participatory culture: Play — the capacity to experiment [...]
Student use of Wikipedia
This thread on the use of Wikipedia in the academy appeared earlier this year on the discussion list Humanist. Here is the link. This message is a request for comment (the humanities version of a RFC). 2006 appears to be the year that undergraduate students discovered Wikipedia in a big way. My colleagues and I [...]
The University of Melbourne Podcasts
Like everyone else it seems, universities have started to produce their own ‘community engagement’ media channels. Check out this contribution from The University of Melbourne. I would be interested to hear what you think. ‘Melbourne University Up Close’ Episode 3: Nuclear Power In the third episode of the Melbourne University Up Close podcast show, Jacky [...]
New media and cultural form: narrative versus database
New media and cultural form: narrative versus database Ilana Snyder Monash University To appear in 2004 in: A. Adams & S. Brindley (eds), Teaching English with ICT. London: Open University Press & McGraw Hill. Why narrative and database Stories define how we think, how we play, even how we dream: they represent a basic way [...]
What to do with a million books: Innovations in Scholarly Communication
(The 'scholarly communication' in this email isn't that 'scholarly' ie. I think that Michael Hart the founder of Project Gutenburg is talking about hard-on tablets rather than e-books ie. 'bigger, faster, more'. Still, ebooks may eventually become more than just 'the delivery boy' of scholarship as Willard McCarthy of that wonderful email discussion list Humanist [...]
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Community Engagement and ICT
For those interested in ICTs and Community Engagement, I have transcribed a list of useful sites from that wonderful publication “Towards Whole of Community Engagement: A Practical Toolkit” by Heather J Aslin and Valarie A Brown. Although none of these links particularly concern ICTs, the methodologies and approaches used in them could be appled to [...]
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