I'm about as late as can be in getting up my THATCamp session proposal. But I wanted to put it here for posterity as well: At various times over the last year, there have been conversations about holding a THATCamp that was aimed at parents and kids. I know that we aren't all parents, but … Continue reading Session Proposal for THATCamp CHNM 2011
Category: Teaching
Code for BootCamp Southeast
Here is information that you will need to copy and paste for the THATCamp Southeast BootCamp session on "Visualizing Time and Space with Simile Widgets and Google." <script src="http://api.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/2.2.0/exhibit-api.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://api.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/2.2.0/extensions/time/time-extension.js"></script> <link rel="exhibit/data" type="application/jsonp" href="XXX?alt=json-in-script" ex:converter="googleSpreadsheets" /> <div ex:role="facet" ex:facetClass="TextSearch" ex:facetLabel="Search"></div> <div ex:role="facet" ex:expression=".eventType" ex:facetLabel="Event Type"></div> <div ex:role="view" ex:viewClass="Map" ex:label="Map" ex:latlng=".event_latlng" ex:center="37.160317,-96.943359" ex:zoom="4" ex:colorKey=".eventRegion"> … Continue reading Code for BootCamp Southeast
Session idea for THATCamp Southeast
I can't believe that we're less than a week away from the beginning of THATCamp Southeast. In what shouldn't be an all-too-surprising discovery, I'm learning that an unconference takes a lot more organizing than one would have thought. In any case, I recently posted my session idea for the Camp, and I wanted to cross-post … Continue reading Session idea for THATCamp Southeast
Dr. ProfHacker, or How I L3rn3d to St0p Worry1ng and <3 teh fail!!1! (MLA 2011 Version)
As you might have intuited from a previous post, I had the opportunity to attend the recent 2011 MLA Convention in Los Angeles. One of the panels that I spoke on was organized by Jason B. Jones and featured a trio of the ProfHacker team on the theme of "Hacking the Profession: Academic Self-Help in … Continue reading Dr. ProfHacker, or How I L3rn3d to St0p Worry1ng and <3 teh fail!!1! (MLA 2011 Version)
(Omni?)Present at the MLA
Last year I gained some attention for not attending the Modern Language Association's annual convention. The notice that was paid to my situation and to the paper that was read on my behalf took me completely by surprise. That feeling of surprise persisted throughout 2010 as people occasionally sent emails or told me at events … Continue reading (Omni?)Present at the MLA