“Data Driven: Digital Humanities in the Library,” sponsored by the South Carolina Digital Library, the College of Charleston and the Charleston Conference, invites submissions for its 2014 conference, on all aspects of digital humanities in the library. The deadline for proposals has been extended to Jan. 10, 2014: http://dhinthelibrary.wordpress.com/
Month: December 2013
“Let the Games Begin”
“Let the Games Begin: Students and Teachers Dive Into SimCityEDU” http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/10/let-the-games-begin-students-and-teachers-dive-into-simcityedu/
SimCityEDU is built on the code for the popular city building game SimCity and has the same graphics. The difference is that SimCityEDU asks players to accomplish environmental science missions that are based on the Common Core State Standards.
Job posting
University of Macau invites applications for the position of Full/Associate Professor of Communication. Application review begins Dec. 1 and will continue until the position is filled: http://www.aejmc.org/jobads/?p=8728&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
“The Repurposed Ph.D.”
“The Repurposed PhD: Finding Life After Academia — And Not Feeling Bad About It” discusses the job-hunting challenge familiar to many doctoral recipients and how embracing “Alt-Ac” (alternative academics) skills can help: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/education/edlife/finding-life-after-academia-and-not-feeling-bad-about-it.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
“Thinking of experimenting with digital scholarly publishing?”
“Words to the wise” from editors of the Writing History in the Digital Age, offering tips on digital scholarship and online collaboration: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/04/03/writing-history-in-the-digital-age/
Job posting
Western Oregon University is seeking applications for an Assistant Professor of Art in Visual Communication Design. Application review begins immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Click here or go to http://www.wou.edu/admin/hr/jobopenings_faculty.php for full details.
Google Glass and its Role in Education
In “Chalkstar to Rockstar 09: Science #ThroughGlass,” a Physics teacher takes students on a virtual field trip to Switzerland: http://edreach.us/podcast/chalkstar-to-rockstar-09-science-throughglass/
“Adventures in Twitter Fiction”
See how one HASTAC Scholar uses Twitter for student-generated digital storytelling in the setting of a foreign language classroom http://www.hastac.org/blogs/finchster11/2013/10/30/adventures-twitter-fiction-student-generated-digital-storytelling-and-f
“The Lab” at ITU Telecom World 2013
For our artists and art enthusiasts! Ars Electronica presents “The Lab” at ITU Telecom World 2013. See information on the individual projects at: http://export.aec.at/itu2013/en
In the context of an open lab situation, Ars Electronica has assembled artistic commentary on the radical transformations of our world with technology, highlighting the opportunities and risks that the economy, science, politics, art and whole societies could soon be facing.
Digital Documentation
A post on the “Digitial Documentation of Art and Fighting Bit Rot” (nothing lasts forever…but technology can help!): http://www.hastac.org/blogs/belljo/2013/10/28/digital-documentation-art-workshop-and-fighting-bit-rot
