Comments on: Web 2.0 and Digital Humanities http://clioweb.org/2006/12/06/web-20-and-digital-humanities/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:14:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeremy Boggs http://clioweb.org/2006/12/06/web-20-and-digital-humanities/#comment-349 Jeremy Boggs Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:29:59 +0000 http://clioweb.org/archive/2006/12/06/web-20-and-digital-humanities/#comment-349 <strong>Bryan:</strong> Thanks for the responses! As far as maintaining identities "through their work," I initially had the idea that I would keep my own various online identities separate. But this became impossible as soon as I started blogging. I felt the same way when I signed up for Facebook. I wanted to keep that separate from my professional identity, and from my blog identity. Then I thought "what's the point in doing that?" I decided to embrace a broader online personae. Now, I import my blog's feed into my notes on Facebook, so my students (who are my "friends" in Facebook) can read my blog in Facebook if they wish. I'm not sure that students would want to do the same thing: import class-related stuff into their Facebook notes. I didn't address this in class, but my initial impression is that students like boundaries, even though my being their friend in Facebook may break (or at least bend) that boundary. Regarding managing multiple services: I've been wanting to write my own program for a while to gather all my "stuff" or data floating about in various apps: del.icio.us, bloglines, flickr, technorati, newsvine, <a href="http://osx.iusethis.com/" rel="nofollow">iusethis.com</a>, upcoming, etc. I kinda already do this now with RSS feeds: I subscribe to all my stuff. <strong>Biryanilady</strong>: Sure! The Digital Notebook is not on the web yet, and from what I gathered it would be for Georgetown faculty and students (I could be wrong about this) From what I gathered at the presentation, the Digital Notebook is a way to manage various materials across classes and projects, and plans to integrate numerous APIs from various web applications. I believe it woudl allow yuo to manage all those handwritten notes in electronic form (once you made electronic versions of them). However, a couple of tools from CHNM would let you do that now: <a href="http://zotero.org" rel="nofollow">Zotero</a>, which Dan presented and which requires the Firefox browser, and <a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/scribe/" rel="nofollow">Scribe</a> a note-taking database program created by Elena Razlogova. Bryan: Thanks for the responses! As far as maintaining identities “through their work,” I initially had the idea that I would keep my own various online identities separate. But this became impossible as soon as I started blogging. I felt the same way when I signed up for Facebook. I wanted to keep that separate from my professional identity, and from my blog identity. Then I thought “what’s the point in doing that?” I decided to embrace a broader online personae. Now, I import my blog’s feed into my notes on Facebook, so my students (who are my “friends” in Facebook) can read my blog in Facebook if they wish. I’m not sure that students would want to do the same thing: import class-related stuff into their Facebook notes. I didn’t address this in class, but my initial impression is that students like boundaries, even though my being their friend in Facebook may break (or at least bend) that boundary.

Regarding managing multiple services: I’ve been wanting to write my own program for a while to gather all my “stuff” or data floating about in various apps: del.icio.us, bloglines, flickr, technorati, newsvine, iusethis.com, upcoming, etc. I kinda already do this now with RSS feeds: I subscribe to all my stuff.

Biryanilady: Sure! The Digital Notebook is not on the web yet, and from what I gathered it would be for Georgetown faculty and students (I could be wrong about this) From what I gathered at the presentation, the Digital Notebook is a way to manage various materials across classes and projects, and plans to integrate numerous APIs from various web applications. I believe it woudl allow yuo to manage all those handwritten notes in electronic form (once you made electronic versions of them). However, a couple of tools from CHNM would let you do that now: Zotero, which Dan presented and which requires the Firefox browser, and Scribe a note-taking database program created by Elena Razlogova.

]]> By: Biryanilady http://clioweb.org/2006/12/06/web-20-and-digital-humanities/#comment-348 Biryanilady Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:03:17 +0000 http://clioweb.org/archive/2006/12/06/web-20-and-digital-humanities/#comment-348 Can you tell us more about the Digital Notebook project? Is it something that would enable me to take all the filefolders of handwritten notes of 10 years in graduate studies (hey, that first degree was supposed to be terminal!) and manage it electronically. Something of a recovering Luddite (lived in a developing country in the 90s, so am still catching up), so please explain in detail if you can. Can you tell us more about the Digital Notebook project? Is it something that would enable me to take all the filefolders of handwritten notes of 10 years in graduate studies (hey, that first degree was supposed to be terminal!) and manage it electronically. Something of a recovering Luddite (lived in a developing country in the 90s, so am still catching up), so please explain in detail if you can.

]]> By: Bryan Alexander http://clioweb.org/2006/12/06/web-20-and-digital-humanities/#comment-347 Bryan Alexander Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:18:14 +0000 http://clioweb.org/archive/2006/12/06/web-20-and-digital-humanities/#comment-347 Thank you for the post and questions! A couple of responses: Multiple sign-ins - it might be worth having a Web 2.0 pair of logins, which each person uses across a series of platforms. Or tweaks logically according to the platform. I do find myself relying on my own browsers' cookies. There's a larger issue on this score, which is how students (and faculty, staff) maintain identities *through their work* over time. Should we set up new accounts and identities for each project? for each class? or instead watch users develop online personae over longer periods of time, across multiple projects and classes, using microcontent to address classes (departments, tags, etc)? Thank you for the post and questions!

A couple of responses:
Multiple sign-ins – it might be worth having a Web 2.0 pair of logins, which each person uses across a series of platforms. Or tweaks logically according to the platform. I do find myself relying on my own browsers’ cookies.

There’s a larger issue on this score, which is how students (and faculty, staff) maintain identities *through their work* over time. Should we set up new accounts and identities for each project? for each class? or instead watch users develop online personae over longer periods of time, across multiple projects and classes, using microcontent to address classes (departments, tags, etc)?

]]> By: Jeremy Boggs http://clioweb.org/2006/12/06/web-20-and-digital-humanities/#comment-346 Jeremy Boggs Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:57:25 +0000 http://clioweb.org/archive/2006/12/06/web-20-and-digital-humanities/#comment-346 Quite true, Sophia. I realized from assignments I gave this past fall that students were more motivated to learn when the assignments were fun and interesting. I'm hoping that "fun" can be redefined, however. Finding funny clips of 1950s television on YouTube is "fun" because they seem so foreign, but I also want the rather serious analysis of those clips to be fun too. Quite true, Sophia. I realized from assignments I gave this past fall that students were more motivated to learn when the assignments were fun and interesting.

I’m hoping that “fun” can be redefined, however. Finding funny clips of 1950s television on YouTube is “fun” because they seem so foreign, but I also want the rather serious analysis of those clips to be fun too.

]]> By: Mughal India Room | chapati mystery http://clioweb.org/2006/12/06/web-20-and-digital-humanities/#comment-345 Mughal India Room | chapati mystery Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:20:03 +0000 http://clioweb.org/archive/2006/12/06/web-20-and-digital-humanities/#comment-345 [...] *: Incidentally, do read these excellent writeups from Jeremy at Clioweb and Mills at edwired on a recent forum, Scholarship 2.0: What Web 2.0 means for Digital Humanists. [...] [...] *: Incidentally, do read these excellent writeups from Jeremy at Clioweb and Mills at edwired on a recent forum, Scholarship 2.0: What Web 2.0 means for Digital Humanists. [...]

]]> By: Sensual Sophia http://clioweb.org/2006/12/06/web-20-and-digital-humanities/#comment-344 Sensual Sophia Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:54:23 +0000 http://clioweb.org/archive/2006/12/06/web-20-and-digital-humanities/#comment-344 >> How do we teach students how to use the technologies they’re already using to learn? Most students learn when they are having fun and are motivated to learn, and one of the things we are exploring over here is combining the psychological factors of video games and learning material and assessments. Web 2.0 and its collaborative features will drive these new applications >> How do we teach students how to use the technologies they’re already using to learn?

Most students learn when they are having fun and are motivated to learn, and one of the things we are exploring over here is combining the psychological factors of video games and learning material and assessments. Web 2.0 and its collaborative features will drive these new applications

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