Last night, while reading DHDebates, I came across Chapter 22, titled Where’s the Pedagogy? The Role of Teaching and Learning in the Digital Humanities by Stephen Brier, which focused on CUNY […]
Archive | September, 2012
Building access
The new CRPD 2012 ICT Accessibility Progress Report is out, and I thought some folks might find it interesting. A quotation from the report that relates to a point I […]

LearnStuff.com’s “Graduating with Technology”
Source: http://www.learnstuff.com/graduating-with-technology/
Some Thoughts on Defining DH
We have worked through some key concepts in trying to define Digital Humanities. An important distinction about DH which Matt pointed out is the emphasis on the methodology of building, […]
Building versus Using
Here is a timely take on our building versus using conversation from one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter Lee Bessette (@collegereadywriting) who now writes for Inside Higher […]
MOOCs
In our last class we discussed MOOCs and some of the possible future directions they might take. I bumped into a blurb in Inside Higher Ed about the Bill and […]
Define at your own peril…
Seeking a definition for digital humanities seems much like the search to define other modern academic concepts, such as “postmodernism.” While we can see multiple iterations of such concepts in […]
Tool Review: GoodReader for iPad (3.17.0)
GoodReader, available for both iPad and iPhone ($5), allows users to open and edit images, documents, PDF files on their iOS device. (I installed and tested the app on my […]
First pass definition
Hello all – below is a very preliminary attempt at creating a definition of digital humanities. A few points I’d like to make before positing a definition: First, I’ve approached […]
Definition Proposal of the Digital Humanities
After reading about digital humanities from such texts as The Queer Art of Failure, Debates in the Digital Humanities, and Matt Gold’s “Digital Humanities”, I can now propose a definition […]