With so much going on, this blog definitely deserves an update. Here’s a quick run-down of all that is new:
AwesomeCamp
I’ll go ahead and declare that THATCamp 2009 was a success! Judge for yourself though, and poke around Flickr, over 3,000 tweets, the wiki, or schedule. Several campers blogged their thoughts on the [...]
On Friday I had the pleasure of presenting ScholarPress at CUNY WordCampEd. I was blown away by the energy and excitement of everyone there (as you can see in the photo above), and fortunate to meet many Twitter friends face-to-face. And man, are they great. Special thanks to Joe Ugoretz (@jugoretz) for [...]
Earlier this week I announced the creation of the Humanist Makers Summer Reading Group. With 15 people already signed up, it looks like a great opportunity to explore part of William Turkel’s Reading List for Humanist Makers, and provide focus to my summer reading.
What will the group do?
Each week we’ll have assigned readings to [...]
I’m happy to announce that all blog posts on Finding America are now released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. This was both an obvious and difficult decision. On one hand, I’m fairly active in the open source community and sharing is second-nature to my work. However, I was previously [...]
It was following our early morning panel at the American Studies Association that a colleague and I rented a convertible and drove into the New Mexico desert. Ten miles away from the city of Albuquerque, we found ourselves at the base of the Sandia Mountains, adjacent to the Pueblo of Sandia Indian tribe, and riding [...]
Ranking America is one my new favorite blogs with a simple goal: to provide information about how the United States stands in global rankings. This is a great example of how academics can use blogs as a way of sharing an aggregate of research and information. Mark provides no commentary, only information. [...]
Institutions of Higher Ed are increasingly providing WordPress Multiuser as a blogging service to faculty and students. The most-developed examples are University of Mary Washington, Georgetown, and Harvard. But what other colleges and universities are using WordPress MU? What institutional groups are supporting these platforms? Are these campus-wide, or department-wide? [...]
As noted by CogDog and Dan Cohen, I’ve organized a WordCamp event to be held at GMU:
WordCamp conferences are taking the blogging community by storm as one-day events to meet fellow WordPress users in regional communities. WordCamp Ed has been organized to specifically focus on WordPress and Education. The day-long event to take place November [...]
It’s encouraging to see conferences shaking up traditional formats to include greater uses of collaborative technology. This year there will be two online sessions at the American Studies Association conference in New Mexico — both which encourage pre-conference discussion on their blogs:
American Studies at the Digital Crossroads
(Participants: Randy Bass, Bruce Burgett, Sharon Daniels, Glenn Hendler, [...]
CHNM colleague Trevor Owens has been testing out RPGMaker — “a windows only, no-programing skills necessary, platform for building role playing games.” In only two hours, Trevor cooked up a simple RPG about Charles Darwin in a visual style reminiscent to SNES, including character classes, items, and skills. It’s an interesting idea, and the tool [...]