Symposium on Digital Scholarship 1/28/11, Fir Room

Symposium on Digital Scholarship January 28 2011, 9:00-5:00 Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union twitter #uods2011 Opening Remarks:                       Deb Carver, Dean of University Libraries 2010-11 HASTAC Scholars:    Andrew Bonamici, Associate University Librarian Scholars: Ashley Gibson (MA, Art History); Bryce Peake (PhD, Anthropology) Whitney Phillips (PhD, English/Folklore); Anne Stewart (undergraduate, English/Japanese); Staci Tucker (MA, SOJC); Tomas Valladares [...]

Making digital learning environments / technologies accessible for all students?

I found this week’s story in the Chronicle of Higher Education on blind students who are advocating for improvements in the accessibility of digital websites, forums, and programs worth sharing with the Digital Scholars group. The story made me newly attentive to how I design course blogs, integrate multimedia learning modules, make use of PowerPoint [...]

A Digital Scholar on the National Council on the Humanities (at last)

In Obamaland, they get it: the humanities need and deserve a digital scholar at the highest national advisory level.  Barack Obama has nominated  Cathy N. Davidson for a position on the National Council on the Humanities, which advises the NEH (including, of course, the Office of Digital Humanities).   Wouldn’t it be great if they [...]