Spring ’09 Conference Roundup

This spring I’m bouncing around from conference to conference… if you’re attending any of these, or you’re in the area, drop me a line (either as a comment, or on Twitter) and let’s meet up. Here goes:

National Council on Public History (Providence, RI  4/1-4/2)
I’m facilitating an Omeka workshop in Providence that introduces the software, shows examples of different types of websites created with Omeka, and discusses ways of customizing your site using plugins and themes. There’s also a CHNM sponsored workshop in June that has space for both end-users and developers/designers, so please sign up to attend.
American Association for History & Computing (Washington, DC  4/3-4/4)
I’ll be unveiling a new project that I’ve been working on called HistoryPlot. I’m really excited by the possibilities of this project, and expect to share a lot of ideas in upcoming posts.
WordCamp 2009 (San Francisco, CA  5/29-6/2)
I was fortunate to attend last year’s WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, and after having a great time, learning a lot, and bumping into great people, I’ve decided to fly out to SF once again. Any other higher ed, history buff, omeka-using digital humanists attending? Let me know — I’ll be in the area for several days while to take a break as well as test out HistoryPlot on the west coast.
Innovations in E-Learning Symposium (Fairfax, VA 6/4-6/5)
I’ll be co-presenting with Trevor Owens on “Open Source, Extensible Platforms for Creating Collaborative Learning Communities,” which will cover Zotero, Omeka, as well as ScholarPress. I’m excited to hear Vint Cerf give the keynote.
Digital Humanities 2009 (College Park, Maryland  6/22-6/25)
I’ll be joining other CHNMers with a poster session, as well as attending sessions throughout the week. If you’re in town for this, let me know. I’m expecting this to be a pretty intense week, considering how many DH folks are in town.
The Humanities and Technology Camp (Fairfax, VA  6/26-6/27)
I’m once again co-organizing our digital humanities unconference with Jeremy Boggs and hosted at the Center for History & New Media at George Mason University. If you haven’t already applied, you have until April 1st!
National Educational Computing Conference (Washington, DC 6/28-7/1)
I’ll have a poster session with Jeremy and Trevor, and also be running a “birds of a feather” unconference-ish session on using WordPress in schools. I’ll share more details about the latter when I find them out, but I would love some help organizing the session if others are interested and available.