Category: Random
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Smart Cities
Smart Cities are conceptually interesting for Digital Humanists because most of the universities we infest are in cities, so the first thing we meet when we walk past the gates of the ‘Ivory Tower’ is the bazaar of the modern city. Since sometime on 2009, according UN figures cited in Anthony Townsends new book, “Smart…
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Class Art Collections
One of the unusual results of student led learning is that occasionally, when the students set the homework, the lecturer has to do it. Over the past two weeks, our MA DAH class conducted an exercise in creativity which was new to me, but will become a regular part of our programme.
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Hunting Frank O’Connor
The Digital Humanities team at UCC are hosting a tools and methods workshop for the phd class this weekend, and we are using data about Frank O’Connor, the Cork writer, as the thematic glue to link the various sections on TEI/XML, Databases, visualisation and social networking. Preparing for it I’ve sent some time hunting for…
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Starting a war….
This term I did a little experiment with some readings on contemporary networked warfare and learning in my HI2007, War, State and Society option. I staged the discussion in the first week to see if different sequences of readings might produce different discussions. It didn’t, but it was an interesting week.
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I wonder how many people googled ‘Shikari’ Today: Writing with Students
It all started in a pub, as the best Irish projects do. I was sitting in the back of the Franciscan Well, smoking my pipe, having a pint of their microbrew stout and tweeting, as one does, when I saw and retweeted a call for papers for articles on evaluation for the Journal of Digital…
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Love in a cold climate: Assessment of Digital Artefacts in an Irish University
Last week a group of us set out to write a piece  on assessment and evaluation of digital material in response to a call for contributions to the Journal of Digital Humanities. We began by writing fast stream of consciousness pieces which we later merged and edited into a single piece – that process is described in another post. This is…
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Evaluating Digital Scholarship: Experiences in new programmes at an Irish University
Mike Cosgrave, Anna Dowling,  Lynn Harding, RóisÃn O’Brien & Olivia Rohan While we have used digital research in teaching at University College Cork for many years, the central role played by digital artefacts in the new Digital Humanities programmes is a relatively recent addition. This pivotal shift  is new for both staff and students who,…
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Communities of Practice: Walking the Walk 2012
Communities of Practice in Digital Scholarship (DH6001) is a core module in the Master in Digital Arts & Humanities here in UCC, and I feel the group are more than ready to  break cover from the institutional VLE and “walk the walk” in public, even if no one much is watching! For next Monday’s seminar, rather than…
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To the man with a hammer, every problem is a nail
Encouraging students in university to reach beyond the traditional disciplinary boxes is a significant problem – our education system makes practically no effort to look across the traditional disciplinary boundaries. Some US universities have experience with common first year programmes that focus on problems  in an interdisciplinary space in which students can explore different disciplinary modes of investigation in an integrative way. Simply copying their…
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Harvard “Exam” “Cheating” Scandal rumbles on
The Great Harvard Cheating Scandal of 2012 rumbles on, with more details emerging which make it seem to me that it was neither “cheating” nor was it an “examination”. Â Regardless of what the official course syllabus stipulates, contradictory guidance from a professor and 4 teaching assistants, along with accepted practice and failures to catch this…
