Category Archives: Session: Talk

Digital History and Service Learning

Talk session proposal:  I would like to propose a session to discuss and/or brainstorm ways to use digital history tools to encourage students to engage with the history of their local community. As a reference point for the discussion, I am … Continue reading

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(Talk) Digital Dissertations

For grad students and faculty alike, digital components to dissertations present opportunities to consider the nature of scholarly inquiry, research, and publication.  I am imagining a session designed for graduate students (and faculty who are interested, but more for the … Continue reading

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Teaching fully-online courses: what works for history?

This session may fall outside the usual range of digital-humanities topics for a THATCamp, but so be it. I’d like to convene a session on teaching history in fully-online formats– that is, when you may never meet your students in … Continue reading

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(Quasi-Make) Proposal: Check Me Out: Digital History Evaluations

For my proposal, I’m offering up a roughly formed-slammed together session that is sorta make and sorta talk based. Throughout the last few years, the evaluation of digital scholarship has been of growing focus particularly within the context of scholarly … Continue reading

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(Talk) Session Proposal: Digital History and Collaboration

In his introduction to the workshop on digital history Thursday morning, Seth Denbo stated that collaboration was central to the ethos of digital history. Ethos struck me as not quite the right word, because it suggests to me that collaboration … Continue reading

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Git / GitHub ?

Susan posted this tweet: session on forking history & github would be terrific @ #thatcamp #aha2014. anyone more savvy than i up for proposing? @kmlawson @historying — susan garfinkel (@footnotesrising) January 2, 2014 Anyone else want to talk about what … Continue reading

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(Talk) Session Proposal: Teaching digital-history research techniques with analog tools

When we’re in the classroom, we can’t guarantee that all of our students will have laptops (unless we bring them laptops or reserve a computer lab). If we want to teach digital history techniques to our students as part of … Continue reading

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