At the University of Virginia Library’s Scholars’ Lab, Wayne Graham and Joe Gilbert regularly offer “A Humanist’s Introduction to Programming (with Ruby),” a short series [...]
Landscapes are being transformed into information interfaces. Foundational to our embodied experience of place are the ways in which we represent and visualize space. From [...]
This semester, the Computer Science Department and the English Department at UMD teamed up to provide Honors students in Book 2.0: The History of the [...]
Today's mobile devices are natively equipped with multimedia means for families to capture and share their daily experiences. However, designing authoring tools that effectively integrate [...]
As MITH's newly-minted Assistant Director and a serial collaborator, Dave Lester will discuss the unconference (barcamp) model and his experience helping organize The Humanities and [...]
The Smithsonian American Art Museum implemented the world's first museum-based Alternate Reality game titled "Ghosts of a Chance" in 2008. The game ran for three [...]
In 2007 Warner Bros. released the 80th anniversary DVD edition of The Jazz Singer, a boxed set that includes 34 conversion-era sound shorts and a [...]
Classical studies offers one particular, but potentially powerful, window onto possibilities for the humanities. A growing, international body of classicists are dedicated not simply to [...]
Ebooks are suddenly everywhere again. Kindle, Nook, iPhone . . . after 2000 years, the codex is getting an upgrade. But what kind of electronic [...]
What happens when the scholarship of teaching meets Web 2.0? Professor Sample argues the ideal result is the open source professor, a teacher and scholar [...]