Category Archives: General

Play Session: Captain Curiosity vs the Filter Bubble or How to Find a Haystack When There’s a Needle in It

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Maria Snyder

One challenge to guiding students through the research process is the focus on finding an answer – any answer – as quickly and efficiently as possible. Good ideas and new insights get tossed aside and trampled in the process. Rich … Continue reading →

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proposal: talk session about crowdsourcing cultural heritage projects

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Ellen Joyce

I would like to propose a session about using Scripto to organize crowdsourcing projects with cultural heritage resources. Specifically, I’d like to talk about how to use transcription tools (are there others?) to get students, alumni, and community members working … Continue reading →

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DH [and, or, with, against…???] Online Teaching

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Joe Austin

What are the relationships between DH and Online Teaching? In this talk session, I imagine a discussion of the (possible) overlaps, contradictions, infusions, and rejections between these two “online” activities. Is the DH scholar also a DH online teacher? In … Continue reading →

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Session Proposal: What Does a Successful Humanities WordPress Site Look Like?

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Joe Walzer

In the interest of continuing our discussion from today’s BootCamp about WordPress, I would like to propose a session on how to best apply WordPress for active students, scholars, and job-seekers in the humanities. Since the needs and interests of those … Continue reading →

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Session Proposal: History of Resistance at UWM- Digital Resources

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Jacob Glicklich

Recently I’ve been part of a project to building a timeline and set of resources on resistance, direct action and organizing across the history of UW-Milwaukee. This is based on examination of archives at the UWM Library, as well as … Continue reading →

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Promotion, Tenure, Peer Review, and the Digital Turn

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Will Tchakirides

This could be either a “talking” or “making” session depending on what we want out of it, but I thought THATCamp might be a good place to have an extended conversation about processes of promotion, tenure, and peer review in … Continue reading →

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Session Proposal: How do we use the digitized archive? (a “talk” session)

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Ann Hanlon

At UWM we’ve been digitizing our archival and special collections materials since 2001 – right now we have nearly 120,000 objects available online and that number is growing. Like us, many libraries and archives are working toward greater access to … Continue reading →

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Session proposal

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Ronald Larson

I want to propose a Talk session in which THATCampers discuss the issues related to the “best way” to present photographs and video online. The photos and video were gathered in visits to Libya and Syria over the last two … Continue reading →

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Location, location, location(s)

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Will Tchakirides

Greetings THATCampers, We are very excited to announce the two locations for THATCamp Milwaukee 2014. That’s right, we are hosting our THATCamp at two distinct Milwaukee locations! On Friday, May 23rd, we will feature a “Bootcamp” workshop series in the … Continue reading →

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Building Community Through the Digital Humanities

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Will Tchakirides

Welcome to THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) Milwaukee 2014, an (un)conference organized by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library’s Digital Humanities Lab and the UWM History Department. In this collegial setting, we invite you to have a little fun talking … Continue reading →

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