Wikis in the Classroom
Mills Kelly has a nice post about PBwiki's new Educators' Wiki, its tips for student wiki etiquette, and his thoughts about using wikis in the classroom. Along with Wetpaint, Wikidot,
Tom Scheinfeldt
Tom is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut. He writes about history, technology, digital humanities, design, higher education, and (sometimes) politics.
Briefly Noted for March 17, 2008
The content is about the same, but The History Channel's new design is a big step in the right direction (see the Internet Archive's very slow loading capture from
Third Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop
The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) will host the 3rd annual Nebraska Digital Workshop from Oct. 10-11, 2008. CDRH is seeking proposals for digital
Briefly Noted for March 14, 2008
Finally! From our talented Polish colleagues at Historia i Media comes Feeds, a much needed new resource that uses Google Reader to aggregate and filter RSS streams from digital historians around the world.
Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology?
Sometimes friends in other disciplines ask me the question, "So, what are the big ideas in history these days?" I then proceed to fumble around for a few minutes trying to