Arts and Crafts in my American Literature Classroom Note: I don’t post about teaching much, not because I don’t want to, but because the privacy issues are complex. Today, a fun exception! This week my American Novel class worked on “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (I know, it’s a stretch to call […]
Tools
I both hope and sincerely intend to write a longer post about my activities of this week. This week I’ve been at the the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. I took a weeklong seminar entitled “Digital Editions.” The quickest thing to say about it is that it was wonderful. I have […]
Quick DHSI Wrap-up
There isn’t much about the academic job or postdoc market that it’s appropriate to post publicly. I won’t mention where I’m applying, or who has listed jobs that sound exciting. Suffice it to say: there’s a market, and I’m on it. The Problem What I am noticing is what a […]
The Academic Job Market and Tools
Or, In Which I Use My Blog as a Bookmarking Tool Mindmapping Recently, I asked the Twitterverse about collaborative online mind mapping tools. I have used Cmap Tools for a while and I love it, but it’s local and what I really wanted was something that could take advantage of […]
More on Digital Tools
For now, this will be the second in my three-part series (First Part). It’s not the post on teaching that I planned, but it has come over me. So this is not so much a post on teaching as a post on some elements of teaching and technology. But first […]
Teaching and technology
(This is outside of the three part series I’m writing, but I wanted to share a story) This post started out as a comment on a recent ProfHacker post but it quickly became clear to me that it was its own little story. So I’ll go back and make a […]
Excursus: An anecdote about digital research gone weird
I don’t want to start a barrage of truly hardcore digital humanities folks laughing at me, but I’ve had such great connections about digital tools on Twitter today that I wanted to write a post at least in part so I could catalog them! My training in grad school in […]