Category: DCS Conference
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Professor Faull’s Awesome GIS Project
Today at 5 pm John and I visited the Conference for Humanities in the Terrace Room. We surveyed the different posters about digital visualization and various forms of digital humanities. There were a lot of interesting ideas being presented and it really opened my eyes to the realm of possibility that is associated with this…
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Poster Session – Flipped Learning and Online vs. Traditional Learning
At the 10:15AM poster session, I focused mainly on two talks: flipped learning and online vs. traditional learning. I thought the flipped learning talk was very interesting, not to mention the speaker was also pretty funny and refreshing. I was not familiar with the concept of flipped learning prior to the talk, but anything that…
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Digital Archive of the Boston Marathon Bombing
I attended the 8:30 am paper session of the Digital Scholarship Conference. While I was there I learned about several groups humanities projects that they had completed. Although I thought that the visualization of the Polish Jew’s life using the Corpus linguistics application was interesting, I was most interested in the Boston Marathon archive project.…
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Digital archives of the Boston bombing
I went to the 8:30 am paper session of the Digital Scholarship Conference and found the project “Our Marathon” very inspiring. “Our Marathon” is a crowd-sourced archive of pictures, videos, stories, and even social media related to the Boston Marathon; the bombing on April 15, 2013; the subsequent search, capture, and trial of the individuals who…