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E-learning and Digital Cultures
I have just started doing this new course on Coursera. Admittedly I know the content pretty well, however it is the method of delivery that is very interesting indeed. I’ll write a review of their ‘experimental teaching methods’ soon…
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The Open Victoria Project: Open-Government Widgets for Enhanced Citizen-Government Dialogue
This is a project I am trying to develop. It is a proposal for a small prototype project. Any takers? Synopsis The Open Victoria Project will investigate and improve access to online Victorian State Government knowledge bases in a high-capacity broadband era. The project will repurpose and make available a set of portable generic widget…
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Journal of Digital Humanities Volume 1, No. 2
Here is an interesting innovation from the ever prolific Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media in the US. It is built on a platform they developed called PressForward and is an open-access journal “that features the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the DH community in the previous quarter”. The articles are…
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Opportunity and accountability in the eResearch push, Digital Humanities, 2012, Hamburg, Germany
I would like to open with an image; it is an image from Fritz Lang’s famous 1927 German Expressionist Science Fiction movie, Metropolis. Made in Germany during the Weimar period, Metropolis depicts a futuristic dystopian society where wealthy intellectuals rule from the city above ground, oppressing the workers who live in the depths below them.…
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Internet!
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The Sound of Many Hands Clapping: Teaching the Digital Humanities through Virtual Research Environment (VREs)
At the core of the work done within the digital humanities is a difficult interdisciplinary relationship between the at times divergent cognate fields of computer science and the humanities. This paper will explore some of the characteristics of the digital humanities and examine some of its hard interdisciplinarity relationships. It is the contention of the…
