Presidential Word Clouds

On November 14, 2012 By

I am in the most preliminary stage of sketching out a small project (yes, I am that tentative about this) involving the political rhetoric of the Presidential campaign that just ended this past week.  My first step was to create word clouds based on the full texts of each of the two major party candidates’ [...]

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Academic Blogging

On September 20, 2012 By

Academic Blogging

Well, according to the London School of Economics I should be paying way more attention to my blog than I do.   I’ll try to work on that.

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THATCamp Florida 2012

On November 8, 2011 By

 

We are gearing up for THATCamp Florida 2012, which will be held on 18-19 February at UCF’s Center for Emerging Media.  The website for the event will be active soon @ Florida2012.thatcamp.org.  There will be far more information forthcoming. 

Hope to see all of you Digital Humanists there!    

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This past winter the New York Times offered a story about the spread of online learning in Florida state High Schools that I have been intending to address for some time. If you are interested in distance learning, or are a concerned parent with a child in the state’s school system (I happen [...]

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THATCamp Florida is now accepting applications for participation in the first THATCamp in the Southeast. We will accept proposals until 5 February, and begin notifying applicants of their acceptance on a rolling basis beginning on 15 January. You can find more in formation about THATCamp here. Please fill out the form below.

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“All in” Online.

On September 1, 2010 By

In an effort to embrace the online teaching that I am doing, and will likely be doing much more of in the future, I have adopted a pedagogy that is techno-centric this semester. I have my students blogging, working on a wiki page, and editing a google map with content overlays. The end result will [...]

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This is a post designed to demonstrate who narrow is the world in which I live, mentally. I was playing with a map this evening (I know, geek badge) and decided to trace the latitude of my town around the globe to see what it intersected. I was more than a little surprised by the [...]

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Digital Humanist

On May 24, 2010 By

Aftrer a weekend at an “unconference” on the Humanaties and Technology I am still not sure exactly what a Digital Humanist is, though it is a term that I heard dropped many times in the last two days. I will say, however, that I was very impressed with the energy, the ideas and and the [...]

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