by aorrego1@gsu.edu | Oct 12, 2014 | Atlanta connections, digital humanities, mapping, SIF Projects
This week has been another one of those informational weeks. I was recently recruited to be a part of the Atlanta transit project. This project is geared towards focusing on Atlanta’s public transportation history, particularly MARTA’s planned transit...
by Robert Bryant | Oct 2, 2014 | Atlanta connections, data visualization, digital humanities, mapping
Hey Guys! Just wanted to talk a little this week about the project some of the SIFs and I are working on! It’s been a rough week due to a stagnant cold that’s been ailing me, but we’ve managed to accumulate a lot of good data to throw at this...
by Thomas Breideband | Sep 28, 2014 | digital humanities, pedagogy, SIF Projects
This week I have been quite busy conducting interviews for my hybrid pedagogy promotion project, and one aspect that came up frequently during those interviews was my interviewee’s particular reservation against using the microblogging platform Twitter for...
by jciliberto | Sep 25, 2014 | digital humanities, etexts
The ancient Greek work Poïesis (ποίησις) “is etymologically derived from the ancient term ποιέω, which means “to make” ” (Wikipedia), pointing to the fundamentally creative aspect of poetry. Words exist, like bricks. By a making, a poet creates...
by Valerie Robin | Sep 18, 2014 | digital humanities
One of the projects I am assigned to is to help Dr. Michael Harker work on the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN). The DALN, as we refer to it, is a collection of narratives from all over the world about literacy. This could mean anything from reading, to...
by Dylan Ruediger | Sep 17, 2014 | digital humanities, pedagogy
I haven’t written yet about what is probably my personal favorite of the SIF projects, an ambitious digital humanities project called the Hoccleve Archive, which is attempt to create a digital variorum edition of Thomas Hoccleve’s early 15th century poem, the Regiment...
