Tom Scheinfeldt

Tom Scheinfeldt

Connecticut
Tom is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut. He writes about history, technology, digital humanities, design, higher education, and (sometimes) politics.
27
Apr

Open Source Community and the Omeka Controlled Vocabulary Plugin

I love open source. Why? Here's a fairly representative example. Following Patrick Murray-John's excellent post and
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23
Apr

Briefly Noted for April 23, 2010

An Asset Bubble in Higher Ed? — Michael Feldstein (currently of Oracle and formerly of SUNY) argues that we may be
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21
Apr

Briefly Noted for April 21, 2010

edUi Call for Proposals — edUi has posted the CFP for its November 2010 conference in Charlottesville, Virginia. edUi provides a
21
Apr

Digital History and the Public History Curriculum

A knowledge of digital history theories and methods is quickly becoming essential for public historians. More and more, digital history
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08
Apr

Briefly Noted for April 8, 2010

Teachinghistory.org's New Look — If you haven’t visited recently, take another look at CHNM’s National History
31
Mar

Briefly Noted for March 31, 2010

Yikes! Another Facebook Privacy SNAFU — Another reason to be happy I left Facebook: it seems a bug in Facebook’s
31
Mar

Picking on someone our own size

Friends of the blog will know that I have long been skeptical of historical video game projects. One of several
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31
Mar

Rethinking Access

[This week and next I'll be facilitating the discussion of "Learning & Information" at the IMLS
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30
Mar

Briefly Noted for March 30, 2010

Old Sturbridge Village Shaping Up — I have spent more time at Old Sturbridge Village, which is two towns over from
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30
Mar

iPads and irResponsibility

Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania has announced it will give every full-time student a new Apple iPad upon arrival in
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