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Archaeology and Cartography: Why Theory Matters
Maps are graphic representations that facilitate a spatial understanding of things, concepts, conditions, processes, or events in the human world. [Harley and Woodward 1987:xvi, quoted in Crampton and Krygier 2005:17] Maps and archaeology have a long history. Heinrich...
Servers and SIF Longevity
This post will be a short update of some of the challenges I have run into with services available to students on campus in relation to servers and Esri's ArcGIS. I've been working on two projects this semester which pair historical maps and planning documents for the...
Oculus Rift — The Nausea Machine
Hey Guys! Our Oculus Rift SDK2 kits are in! I spent a great deal of time with it over the weekend so I'd like to give a quick overview of what I've discovered: 1) It's pretty difficult to setup. It took about 5 hours of fiddling with settings and looking online...
Digital Champions
I am currently working on the first video of the 2 this semester that is on the Digital Champions. These professors have outstanding teaching strategies where they incorporate technology into their curriculum. They teach Hybrid courses where some instruction is in the...
eBooks in Higher Education, especially in Libraries
The history of the codex includes myriad and often convoluted ways of producing and distributing the book to readers. Current day production and distribution of eBooks is no different in its dizzying variety. To narrow things down, here I will present a snippet of...
SIF: positivity, morale and accomplishments
This week, the SIF overlords contacted me and asked me to collect and catalog SIF accomplishments so far. As someone whose default setting is >excited with bouncy option - I am excited that I get to do this job. And while it may seem a little early to start talking...
Tech for Artists First Project – Egg-Carton Peacock
With the goal of bringing interdisciplinary, data-driven tools to artists, my first step is to learn the tech myself and to create proof-of-concept artworks as demonstration examples, and then lead workshops for interested artist students about how they can use these...
Why I’m Obsessed with Google Earth
I have a confession to make. I am addicted to Google Earth. Google Earth is a virtual globe, that also serves as a map and geographical information program, which has been around since 2004. By mapping the Earth through collections of satellite imagery, aerial...
Collaborative work in the humanities
This weekend, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association is coming to Buckhead, and the Hoccleve Archive team will be there. The last couple of weeks have been spent getting ready for what, for us at least, is the first public roll-out of our work. For me, this...
Changing the dialog around sustainability
Yesterday, I spoke on a student panel for a conference that centered around issues of sustainability. There were speakers from various universities (including President Becker from GSU), company heads, interested scholars and a diverse group of other individuals all...
eTextbooks
I recently read a 2014 article about eTextbooks; the focus of the narrative study, published in College Teaching and written by Jenny Bossaller and Jenna Kammer, both at the University of Missouri, centered on faculty experience with eTextbooks, particularly those...
Consumption vs. Production in the Hybrid 2110
With a lot of help from Ameer, I am finally reaching the point where I can make videos more or less on my own. As I have been making them, I have been thinking about how educationally useful the experience of making the videos is. The countless decisions about what...