Category Archives: Debriefings

Final Debriefing

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Caleb McDaniel | 9 Comments

Thanks to everyone who made this year so interesting and fun, and especially to you students, who turned out for the events and contributed such great questions and insights. Since our last debriefing post, we’ve had two events attended by some or all of you: the Digitization in the Humanities workshop and Sharon Leon’s workshop and talk. For this final debriefing post of the semester, please post a comment reflecting either on these recent events or the year as a whole. What are the “takeaway” points that you will remember from the class?

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Grad Student Roundtable on Digital Humanities

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Caleb McDaniel | 7 Comments

Last night, Cameron Blevins, Jeri Wieringa, and Annie Swafford (left to right in the video above) joined us for a fantastic Google Hangout about their experiences as grad students in the digital humanities and digital history. Please post your reactions and follow-up comments here!

Some of the links mentioned:

Mapping Texts project
Praxis Program at Scholars’ Lab
Songs of the Victorians
Scholars’ Lab at UVa
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Spatial History Lab at Stanford
Clio3 course at George Mason
Prism at Scholars’ Lab
Codecademy
Rossetti Archive
Digital Annex of the Victorians Institute Journal
Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online (NINES)
Press Forward
Special issue of Journal of Digital Humanities on evaluation
Paper Machines
Topic Modeling Martha Ballard’s Diary by Cameron Blevins
Cameron’s book summaries for his qual exams
Academic Technology Specialist Program at Stanford
Google Ngram Viewer
Alt-Ac (Alternative Academic Careers)
Digital Humanities Now
Cameron’s Digital History course and his reflections on it
Digital History Initiative at Texas A&M
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska
Digital Scholarship Lab at University of Richmond
Media Commons
“Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List”, New York Times, January 30, 2011

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Debriefing: Houston and Audenaert

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Caleb McDaniel | 9 Comments

This post gives you a chance to share your thoughts about Friday evening’s presentation by Natalie Houston and Neal Audenaert.

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Paper Machines Debriefing

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Caleb McDaniel | 12 Comments

I hope you enjoyed playing around with Paper Machines in our workshop with Jo Guldi. As promised, here’s a brief summary of how I constructed the corpus we used for our visualizations. I’ll follow that with some of the visualizations you made, and invite you to comment on what you see that’s of interest.

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Debriefing

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Caleb McDaniel | 5 Comments

Thanks to everyone for the good discussion last night at Chad Black’s lecture and workshop! This post contains some thoughts about both, with an invitation to you to share your own reactions.
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Debriefing

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Caleb McDaniel | 10 Comments

Thanks to everyone for a very good discussion at last night’s dinner and workshop with Scott Nesbit and Visualizing Emancipation. A lot of issues were raised, both about the project itself and about digital history generally. What surprised you or stood out to you about the night? What are your thoughts about the challenges and payoffs of work like this?

You can answer these questions or chime in with questions and thoughts of your own. The comment thread is yours.

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