VR and humanities – a 5 minute talk
Last week at the Digital Media & Learning conference at UC Irvine – my first Ignite talk, and the perfect format in which my high-speed delivery…
Online education, 5 years later
Has it really been 5 years already? Today (April 27th) we discuss this – I’ll post my deck after we are done. In the meantime, if you…
Thoughts on the Tercer Encuentro de Humanistas Digitales (and slides of my talk)
This week started with a day at the Archivo General de la Nacion. I always get a rush in there. It’s cold, it’s dusty and musty.…
The sexist search engine
Last week I was preparing a talk about instructional technology in the modern university and I wanted to illustrate how IT can make a large lecture…
well, actually… DH seminar 10 weeks in.
It’s week 10. So much for weekly updates on the DH seminar. In my defense, it’s been one heck of a hectic quarter. But let me…
Moving Matters in the Digital Age
I am moving matters – literally – and starting to publish via Medium. Who knows – that may be where we all end up writing, eventually.…
DH grad seminar – day 1: on gender bias in games and history
There are 11 of us in the class (including me). We started the class by playing Timeline (because, you know, we are historians). Timeline is a…
Doing DH and stuff in Mexico City
Last week I flew to amazing Mexico City to speak about digital archiving and economic history at the Colegio de México. It is always great…
It’s the end of the term, and we know it: initial results on the latest iteration of an online class (+ a holiday wish list)
The 163 students in History 19WV submitted their final paper last night. You did it guys! Good luck on finals and enjoy your break! And thanks for filling…
Immigration and the American dream – a class assignment using the short film “Ellis”
Last week I screened the film Ellis in my class. The film was also screened in the Rivera and Orbach libraries on campus for 2 hours –…
