Responses to edwired’s post Making Digital Scholarship Count (2) raise the question, is a blog scholarship? I worry that our efforts to open up definitions of scholarship may create checklists—this is in, that’s out—that will further inhibit creativity and innovation. A blog seems to be an excellent way to develop a train of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Center for History and New Media’
Is a blog scholarship?
Posted in history, new media, popular history, scholarship, tagged blogs, Center for History and New Media, digital humanities on July 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Ohio Civic Tourism Initiative
Posted in Dayton, Ohio, Ohio Humanities Council, Omeka, civic engagement, cultural heritage, higher education, history, new media, place, popular history, tagged Center for History and New Media, Euclid Corridor, Ohio Humanities Council on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
. . . with hundreds of local history organizations and museums highlighting archaeology, arts, literature and material culture, more than 2300 miles of designated scenic by-ways, and dozens of agricultural and food fairs, among other attractions, a trip anywhere in Ohio can provide an exciting, rewarding experience.
OHC Pathways
The Ohio Humanities Council plans to conduct five, [...]
Omeka Sandbox
Posted in Omeka, cultural heritage, digital-storytelling, history, museums, oral history, public history, tagged Center for History and New Media, digital collections, digital exhibit, Omeka on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve written about Omeka, the Center for History and New Media’s free digital exhibit and collections application. They now offer an Omeka “sandbox” so that you can try out the application for yourself. I’m glad to see this since I kept adding administrators to my Omeka project so that others could try it out.
When [...]
Omeka: Internet Exhibits Made Much Easier
Posted in Dayton, Ohio, Ohio Humanities Council, Omeka, civic engagement, cultural heritage, history, museums, oral history, public history, tagged archives, blog, Center for History and New Media, DaytonCreate, digital collections, digital exhibits, museums, Ohio Humanities Council, Omeka, wordpress on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Center for History and New Media, in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society, released Omeka this past winter. Omeka is a web platform or publishing tool for sharing collections and producing exhibitions online. Omeka is available free to download and it is open source, permitting all kinds of modifications as well as [...]
Historical scholarship: “it wasn’t always so”
Posted in history, scholarship, tagged Center for History and New Media, Found History, history, scholarship, Tom Scheinfeldt on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In an essay, “Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology?” Tom Scheinfeldt suggests that the field of history is seeing a shift from a century of theoretical questions framed in monographs to a greater emphasis on methodology, collaboration, and organization. Over a century ago, he notes that bibliography was central to the academic enterprise in [...]
23 (or 43) Things: Zotero
Posted in 23 (or 43) Things, Education, National History Day, history, tagged 43 Things, Center for History and New Media, Foxfire, students, zotero on February 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
43 Things is a social networking site where users list their goals and record their progress towards meeting these goals, earning symbolic rewards and applause for success. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published some amusing faculty to-do lists to illustrate “The 24/7 Professor: What to do when home is just another word for the [...]
Turning Point: Roy Rosenzweig
Posted in National History Day, tagged Center for History and New Media, National History Day, OAH Distinquished Lectureship, Randy Bass, Roy Rosenzweig on October 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Roy Rosenzweig , Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media at George Mason University, was a mentor and generous friend to those at a distance as well as to his many colleagues, collaborators, and students at George Mason University. We were saddened to hear of his death this past week.
I have [...]
