Comments for THATCamp Pacific Northwest 2009

Comment on Data Visualization and DIY Technologies by hastac - StartTags.com

hastac - StartTags.com — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:17:38 +0000

[…] with a dinner for HASTAC Scholars, grad students selected to blog about the conference: …Data Visualization and DIY Technologies THATCamp Pacific …(On a different register, I can also speak to my recent involvement in HASTAC's forum on […]

Comment on Thanks for a Great THATCamp PNW 2009! by Christopher Schedler

Christopher Schedler — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:58:14 +0000

Thanks to Julie and Lorena for organizing the camp and everyone who participated. It was very enlightening. I’m not sure if this is the proper place for follow-up evaluations, but for the next THATCamp PNW, I’d like to see some presentations a little longer than the Dork Shorts included in the sessions, particularly the sessions on pedagogy. I appreciated the discussions we had, but seeing some pedagogical applications of the technologies in assignments, activities, online classes, etc. would help make the discussions more concrete and give participants ideas about ways to adapt the applications to their own courses.

Comment on Anyone want to see Google Wave? (not a session) by jcmeloni

jcmeloni — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:29:09 +0000

Believe me, if I had any, I’d give them out. The latest group of people to get Wave didn’t get any invites (actually called “nominations”) — and the time between invite/nomination to actual account activation was upwards of a week. Keep an eye on the twitters, though, because when people have invites, I’m sure we’ll make announcements (I know I will). I’ll also put you on the list I’m keeping on a sticky note.

Comment on Anyone want to see Google Wave? (not a session) by LarryCebula

LarryCebula — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:11:26 +0000

Is this where we beg for invites? Because if so let the record show that I am begging.

Comment on The Writer’s Archive and The Networked Book by Shane Landrum

Shane Landrum — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:47:13 +0000

I'd love to hear more about what this session comes up with; it's a problem I've been struggling with in my own academic writing. I've read McPhee's description of his own process, and the best dissertation howto book I've ever seen (Destination Dissertation) suggests a similar strategy. I've found that I have to shift back and forth between electronic and digital filing; one of the best tools I've come up with so far has been a little OmniOutliner notetaking document that'll output elegantly to 3x5 cards. Thanks for bringing this up.

Comment on Anyone want to see Google Wave? (not a session) by Hannah

Hannah — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:30:54 +0000

great idea, sign me up!

Comment on Resources: Survey of Digital Collections by Zinthia

Zinthia — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:37:30 +0000

You will be terribly missed l1brar1an. Thank for the information

Comment on Playing with Technology by jcmeloni

jcmeloni — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:32:46 +0000

Play is fundamental to learning anything, especially technology. I would argue that the entire hacker culture and the open source movement and especially Web n.0 only exists at all because of the notion of play. The trouble with play in the classroom is that it’s hard to build “play” into a jam-packed syllabus that also has to include (for institutional purposes) assessment. I will be in this session; “play” is part of my dissertation. IOW, I could continue to wax philosophical from this end, but I’m interested in hearing the theoretical underpinnings of your particular ideas of play.

Comment on Mobile Digital History and Tool Building by Hannah

Hannah — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:25:36 +0000

excited to hear more about HistoryPlot. I’m having dinner tonight with a friend who created this place-based mobile storytelling project called Echo Atlanta, which is kind of like Toronto’s Murmur Project. I’d love to see an Augmented Reality that includes personal histories…”Washington Monument” across the street from “Corner Where I Had My First Kiss.”

Comment on The Writer’s Archive and The Networked Book by jcmeloni

jcmeloni — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:25:00 +0000

I believe this will be a popular topic (in fact, I already know it is but some people are shy about saying so), in part because the issues you bring up are similar to the issues faced by students in their own (academic) writing, some of which we try to solve (or help them solve) by introducing them to tools for the same purposes you describe.

Comment on Regional Collaboration by jcmeloni

jcmeloni — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:22:24 +0000

I think this is tremendously important; I was considering ways in which this could actually be rolled into the final wrap-up session as well, so that everyone would be in the same room.

Comment on Data Visualization and DIY Technologies by Christopher Schedler

Christopher Schedler — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:25:36 +0000

From a brief visit to the HASTAC site, it would seem that this is an example of a “collaborative, multi-institutional project in digital humanities scholarship and/or teaching” that I called for in my session suggestion for DH Grants & Institutional Models below. I would like to hear more about how HASTAC is organized.

Comment on Data Visualization and DIY Technologies by Paige

Paige — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:39:17 +0000

I’m definitely interested in these — I didn’t know about either ManyEyes or SIMILE, and I’m already exploring them. Thanks, Jentery!

Comment on Tech Tools & Pedagogy by drcampbell6676

drcampbell6676 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:54:01 +0000

I’d like to attend/participate in this one. I’ve used blogs, wikis (and, back in the 1990s, listservs) and could talk about blog assignments, but I’d like to hear from everyone about uses for etexts in the classroom. My syllabus for next semester’s American novel class has some language about this, but I’d be interested in hearing people’s experiences.

Comment on Data Visualization and DIY Technologies by jcmeloni

jcmeloni — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:17:15 +0000

I would like all of these things, please!

Comment on Session: Digital History, Regional History by Larry Cebula

Larry Cebula — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:52:01 +0000

Amen! It wouldn’t be right for a state-sponsored institution to use student labor to create content for a proprietary device.

Comment on Session: A database of prices in literary and non-literary sources. by jcmeloni

jcmeloni — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:42:27 +0000

Yep, I’m definitely seeing a session on workshopping ideas for new apps used in research and/or pedagogy.

Comment on Session: Digital History, Regional History by jcmeloni

jcmeloni — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:41:20 +0000

I’d just like to note that what you said about not making an iPhone app is pretty important. Fundamentally, all these new tools should be web-based with the ability to be hooked into by other apps, but not built for those apps. Smartphones w/ web browsing abilities can browse and interact with a site without the need for an app. Once there’s adoption and the actions are clear, certainly can build out apps from there.

Comment on Tech Tools & Pedagogy by jcmeloni

jcmeloni — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:38:52 +0000

Honestly, I can see an entire track devoted to tech tools and pedagogy! Perhaps a session on implementation issues (e.g. access issues, student buy-in, etc), then one on sort of common tools (LMSes, GDocs, blogging), and one on building new tools.

Comment on DH Grants & Institutional Models by jcmeloni

jcmeloni — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:27:47 +0000

FYI, the wonderful folks at the NEH ODH have sent brochures, a message from the director, and will be on the lookout for a series of questions generated from sessions so that the program officers can address them via email or Twitter. All of them (it’s a small office!) are really good, helpful people.

Comment on Tech Tools & Pedagogy by schedlerc

schedlerc — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:13:20 +0000

A session on tech tools and pedagogy is definitely of interest to me. I could contribute my strategies for engaging students in American and Multicultural Literature classes using online technologies, such as my Blackboard course websites, American Indian Literature Blog, and Adobe Connect web-meeting platform.

Comment on Call for Participants: THATCamp Pacific Northwest (10/17/09) by THATCamp Pacific Northwest – Call for Participants « Teaching American History in SW Washington

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:54:30 +0000

[…] 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment From the THATCamp blog: […]